Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Charm School |
| author | Nelson DeMille |
| ISBN-10 | 0-446-35320-5 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-446-35320-5 |
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| date | 2009-Aug-30 |
Gregory Fisher is a young American travelling with his Trans Am in Russia. Major Jack Dodson is an army pilot who has been missing for years. Lisa Rhodes works as a public affairs officer at the US embassy in Moscow. Sam Hollis served as a pilot in Vietnam and now as military attaché in the US embassy of Moscow. Finally, Seth Alevy is the top CIA guy in the same embassy. In one or another way they are all involved in a breathtaking discovery: Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School. A school unlike any other. A school, which threatens to refreeze the thawing relationship between Russia and the United States. A school which is hidden and well protected.
The Charm School is a cold war spy story. It is written very well. The first two chapters are promising and the remaining forty chapters fully make up on that promise. This book is not only full of action, it also is done in a way so the reader never knows too much. Sometimes the main characters know or suspect more than the reader, not vice versa as it is with some other books. DeMille also does a good job of creating the appropriate moods with his writing. Adrenaline when things move fast, fear and a sense of disorientation when held and tortured in prison...
