John W. Feist is the author of a series of political thrillers, Night Rain, Tokyo (2018), Blind Trust (2019), and Doubt and Debt (2021), as well as his recently released literary novel, The Color of Rain (2021), all from Winter Wheat Press. John is a semiretired corporate lawyer living in Falls Church, Virginia. He grew up as an only child in Horton and Lawrence, Kansas and studied philosophy for his AB at the University ofKansas and earned his JD at Stanford Law School. Since 1994 he has been general counsel to a consortium of electric and gas utilities in the US and Canada which sponsor energy efficiency projects in residential, commercial and industrial sectors. Several international trade projects took John to Japan and Canada. From those experiences, and his few years as a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Western steelmakers, John drew ideas and impressions for his suspense fiction.