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Original Title:	The Charm School
ISBN:	0751531189 (ISBN13: 9780751531183)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	U.S.S.R. Moscow(Russian Federation) Russia

The Charm School

Nelson DeMille

Paperback | Pages: 816 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 32401 Users | 1377 Reviews

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Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson. The undergraduates sprawled around a game board aren't chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American.
When a young tourist goes to the aid of a stranger on a dark Russian road, he is astonished to find a fellow American on the run. The man has been missing for over a decade, plucked from the jungles of Vietnam to become an unwilling tutor at the institution. Now his former students are poised to strike at the heart of America.

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Title	:	The Charm School
Author	:	Nelson DeMille
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 816 pages
Published	:	2000 by Time Warner (first published April 1st 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Suspense. Mystery Thriller

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Ratings: 4.27 From 32401 Users | 1377 Reviews

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Ten reasons why this book is garbage :-01. The entire unfortunate meeting between Greg and Dodson suspends belief. These two characters add nothing to the plot except contributing to its convolution.02. We know why Sam is in love with the heroine but the reciprocation of that is not explained.03. The reasons given for endangering Lisa in a spy mission is ludicrous, and may be the biggest gaffe of all.04. Lisa's interest in the peasants of Yablonka is forced and nobody sane would buy it. It's

Approximately twenty to twenty-five years (lets say from about 1986-1994) ago I was a big fan of Nelson DeMille.I would purchase his newest novels when they appeared on the shelves and I searched for his older novels (pre-1986) in my favorite used bookstores. Eventually I changed and DeMille's books changed and I drifted away,but the fond memories remained. The Charm School was one of my favorites.I read it in 1989 when I was twenty-one. I remember it being an intelligent and observant novel

I don't think I've given one star before but this book was such a disappointment I can't possibly do anything else. I've read and enjoyed a couple of other thrillers by this author, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt and persisted with this stinker -- but my perseverance was not rewarded. I realize it was written in the late 1980s, but even so the evil Russians and the noble Americans (complete with flaws of course, since shucks, nobody's perfect)were caricatures from a comic book in the

Nelson DeMille, a versatile author whose Long Island adventure yarns make good reading, is proud of The Charm School, pointing out in an introduction that it has been in print since 1988. The setting is the Soviet Union of that era. Colonel Sam Hollis, an attaché at the US Embassy in Moscow, is in fact a spy. Ill-advisedly - not to say improbably - his attraction for Lisa Rhodes, a member of the Information Staff, leads him to allow her to become his espionage side-kick. They investigate a

I've read the most of the John Corey series which is also by Demille, and whilst reading The Charm School, you'd never know it was written by the same author. It's one of his older books, but it had me guessing and turning the pages until the very end. The Charm School takes place in Russia during the final days of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, where an American tourist stumbles upon a top-secret Russian installation known as Miss Ivanova's Charm School, where Russians and former Vietnam

My expectations were high. I was a fan of the tv show "The Americans" about Russian spies in the U.S but I was disappointed by the way the subject matter was novelized although the idea behind the plot intrigued me.

My expectations were high. I was a fan of the tv show "The Americans" about Russian spies in the U.S but I was disappointed by the way the subject matter was novelized although the idea behind the plot intrigued me.