Overview
In Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are taught by American POWs how to be model US citizens."...Contemporary cold war fiction doesn't get much better than this!" --Washington Post Book World
Synopsis
On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger with an incredible secret. Poised against the very heartland of America is a vast and astounding KGB enterprise known as "The Charm School." Arrayed against the all-encompassing grip of the Soviet state are three Americans: Sam Hollis, an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; Lisa Rhodes, an embassy liaison, who will see her political hopes and ideals brutally tested; and Seth Alevy, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion. Welcome to The Charm School, one of the most chilling Cold War novels ever written.
The New York Times - James F. Clarity
Nelson DeMille's new novel is a Moscow thriller, and he has mastered the mechanics of the genre, moving the plot swiftly with regular intrusions of violence, ironic twists and cynical betrayals.