The Charm School
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000SEGDRW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 441 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. When an unsuspecting American tourist stumbles upon this secret, he sets in motion a CIA investigation that will reveal horrifying police state savagery and superpower treachery.. The Soviet goal -- to infiltrate the United States undetected. In a place called Mrs
In this exciting, polemic novel, DeMille (Word of Honor) limns an authentic portrait of Russian society. He conveys the claustrophobic life of American Embassy officials impossibly restricted in movement, and he creates spirited American agents who dodge and spar wittily with coarse KGB men. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. . They must also decide whether public revelation of a horrifying KGB operation during the new era of glasnost might not damage American/Soviet relations. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted by a man on the run: an Air Force major who was shot down over appears from his hotel and soon turns up dead, the victim of a suspicious car crash. 100,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo. At this point, the plot becomes predictable, and the finale differs little from standard adventure escapes, with a cruel resolution to boot. Once DeMille brings readers into th
Boomerbroadcaster said never dull and follows the efforts of the embassy team to. The story is set in 1988 Russia while the Cold War was still flourishing. An American tourist gets lost in an isolated, restricted forest area outside Moscow and is confronted by a rogue American who claims to be one of hundreds of American prisoners of war kidnapped at the end of the war in Vietnam and traded by the North Vietnamese to Russia in exchange for missiles.The plot follows American Embassy staffers Colonel Sam Hollis, Lisa Rhodes and other agents as they attempt to verify the escapee’s story t. ktollstam said Loved it except for the ending.. I love DeMille and love his books. This is an older title, but I have just gotten around to reading it. It is set in the Cold War era when there was a Commie under every bush. All I could think of while reading this was "Moose and Squirrel must die!" I loved everything about this book except the ending. It's not that the ending was bad, it just wasn't the ending I was expecting or hoping. I always get engrossed in my reading and start relating to the characters and story. This ending left me cold; fell flat. I . "Amazing and outstanding" according to HeyJudy. Nelson DeMille may be my favorite author. I thought that I had read all of his books but, obviously, somehow I missed THE CHARM SCHOOL, first published in the 1980s.Like all of his thrillers, THE CHARM SCHOOL, too, is the type of page turner that a reader cannot put down; indeed, it is difficult not to clear one's calendar totally in order to keep reading until the conclusion.No one--and I mean no one--crafts a better plot, or tells a tale more forcefully, than does DeMille.As always with a DeMille work, the st