Description:
The Budapest Escape tells the story of a dedicated CIA officer risking his life and career to rescue a valuable agent in Budapest in the middle of the Hungarian revolt and Soviet invasion of 1956.
Brief description: Bill Rapp retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2017 after a 35-year career as analyst, diplomat, and senior executive. Before that he was an academic historian, teaching European History at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, his M.A. from the University of Toronto, and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. The Budapest Escape is the third book in the Cold War Spy Series, following Tears of Innocence (2015) and The Hapsburg Variation (2017). Bill also has a three-book private detective series featuring P.I. Bill Habermann, set outside Chicago. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife, two daughters, two miniature schnauzers, and a cat.