Heath Winslow is a cynical, self-deprecating freelance journalist seeking to inform and influence his readers about the political, social, and economic shifts sweeping Europe in the late 1980s. At the same time, he faces personal challenges as people in his life seek to influence his work. The adventure culminates in the fall of the Berlin Wall and far-reaching changes impacting the continent-and the world.

 Bruce Zielsdorf wrote Munich Spring: A Cold War Adventure in Bavaria as a fictional exploration of events and perspectives he witnessed and experienced while living and working in Germany at the moment political regimes there crumbled. Munich Spring is a novel, but it shares the very real impact of politics, religion, science, and technology through the eyes of everyday people caught up in the moment and not sure where these transformations might take them.