The Charm School

The Charm School
by Nelson DeMille

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Author: Nelson DeMille
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN: 0446675091
Number of pages: 816
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

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Book Review: Amazing and outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars

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 story is so fact-laden that the reader comes out the richer for having been exposed to his detailed and accurate research.

Forget that THE CHARM SCHOOL is set in the Former Soviet Union just before it fell. It remains one of the best spy stories ever...and none of us can be sure that spying does not continue, right to the present, on some level; in fact, it is unlikely that the USA and the FSU countries (or, at least, modern Russia) are not spying on each other still, in some abbreviated fashion.

Using a protagonist who is a military officer trained in espionage and assigned to the United States' Moscow embassy, the plot examines whether there could have been a deeply covered-up training camp for Russian spies near Minsk (today, the capital of modern, FSU Belarus.) In this novel, just such an operation, sarcastically known as "the charm school," supposedly was designed as an American small town to prepare its students for deep cover insertion into the USA. Could this have happened? Could the USA yet be housing some of these same implants?

Typical of DeMille, his detail here is so thorough, and so plausible, that one cannot wonder whether he put in his own days as a spy or as a staff member of the American Embassy in Moscow.

Typical DeMille: A wonderful read and an exciting, unforgettable story!

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Summary of The Charm School

#1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB conspiracy that stands poised against the very heartland of America. Arrayed against this renegade power of the Soviet state are three Americans: an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; an embassy liaison, who will have her hopes for a saner superpower balance brutally tested; and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion.

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