The Charm School

A chilling, relentlessly suspenseful story of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The General’s Daughter.

“Highly engaging super-suspense.” —Kirkus Reviews

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.

• "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