THE CHARM SCHOOL

Warner, New York, 1988, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-446-51305-9.  Hard cover, 533 pages.  Red boards with rubbed gilt lettering on blue cloth spine; light corner wear; wear to cloth at lower spine end; some marks and rubs on boards; light soil and age-spotting on outer page block.  Binding sound with head and tail bands.  Price-clipped dust jacket has some edge and cover wear, some age-toning and rubs.  Prior owner’s name on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘Deep within the vastness of Russia lies a secret so dangerous to American security that it holds the potential to destroy Soviet-American relations.  Deep within the Russian forests lies “The Charm School” … It operates without the knowledge of the Americans or any other foreign power.  Then one day, lost on a dark Russian road in his sleek Trans Am, a young American tourist spots a man in distress – and makes an astounding discovery.  The man he tries to help is a fellow American, an air force colonel, a man on the run, a POW who has been missing in action for over a decade and now has a desperate message for his young listener.  The information must reach the U.S. authorities at all costs, the airman insists, for hundreds of American lives are at stake.’ (from front flap)