The Charm School

On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger with an incredible secret.... (more)

On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger with an incredible secret. Poised against America is a vast and astounding KGB enterprise known as "Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School." It's aim: with the forced co-operation of kidnapped American citizens and U.S. POWs, to train Russian agents to be indistinguishable from ordinary Americans, so that they can slip into the United States undetected. Arrayed against the all-encompassing grip of the Soviets are three Americans: Sam Hollis, an Air Force officer, Lisa Rhodes, an embassy liaison, and Seth Alevy, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station. (less)

On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger; a US POW on the run with ... (more)

On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger; a US POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns a place called Mrs. Ivanova's 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. (less)