One of the last Cold War novels of the Cold War period. Published in 1988, the book, with its POW/MIA theme--and its setting in a mighty USSR--is situated more comfortably in the decade of Rambo than in the political reality of the late eighties/early nineties. In '89, the Berlin Wall came down and ...
This book was #1 on listverse.com for top ten books that should be made into movies, and I heartily agree. The is my favorite of DeMille's excellent, excellent stories, set in Cold War-era Russia where the western good guys stumble across a Soviet secret weapon which might tip the balance in their f...
DeMille was recommended on The Ultimate Reading List for World of Honor. I chose The Charm School instead because it's the favorite DeMille book of a friend whose reading tastes I trust. Mind you, this same friend feels conflicted about DeMille. She says she finds a misogynist streak in DeMille's no...
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 incr...
3.5 Stars. I feel kind of like an a-hole for not giving this one a higher rating. I've been dragging it around all week and have been told by numerous people how much they just LOVED it and should read it again. For all intents and purposes this was a good book. I just thought it would make a be...
Welcome to Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, a top secret "facility" where they teach Russian spies to pass themselves off as Americans to even a real American. Then off to the US of A with a fake identity (Non-Russian, of course) where they would live as American citizens and would pass on the state sec...
I read this years ago and found it so suspenseful that I couldn't put it down. The Charm School is a hidden "camp" in Russia where captured Americans are forced to teach KGB agents how to act American so as to blend in and spy in the U.S. Nelson DeMille is one of my favorite authors and he weaved a ...
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