The Charm School - Hardcover

DeMille, Nelson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446513059 ISBN 13: 9780446513050

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1988

Synopsis

#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.

About this title

Review:

"Highly engaging super-suspense"
Kirkus Reviews
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"A marvelous contemporary writer with something to say, something as rare as it is rewarding."--New York Daily News

"A master at keeping the reader hanging on to see what happens next."
--The Associated Press

"A master of the unexpected...an accomplished and incredibly versatile storyteller."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Highly engaging super-suspense"
--Kirkus Reviews


"No one will stop reading or even pause for the last 100 pages."
---Boston Herald


"A harrowing journey to the heart of totalitarian darkness."
--Washington Post Book World

Book Description:

* International No 1 bestselling novelist's electrifying thriller of terrorism and hostage.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0446513059
• ISBN 13: 9780446513050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544