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The Charm School

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#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. ... more

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Critical Praise

"Chilling...compelling...devastating....Contemporary cold war fiction doesn't get much better than this!"
-Washington Post Book World

"The best kind of book...intense, visually descriptive, fast-paced...a well-written story that keeps you awake long past your bedtime."
-Philadelphia Inquirer

"A superlative story...riveting...the plot is so good and so gripping that putting the book down is almost a physical impossibility."
-Boston Herald

Grand Central Publishing
Category:
FICTION, SUSPENSE & THRILLERS
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
7/1/1999
Price:
$14.99/$17.99
ISBN:
9780446675093
Pages:
816
Size:
5-1/4" x 8"

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