YOU LEARN TO HATE AT THE CHARM SCHOOL

Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are absorbed in young men's games. The undergraduates sprawled around the game board aren't chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents are attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American.

When Gregory Fisher goes to the aid of a stranger on a dark Russian road, he is astonished to discover a fellow American on the run, a man who had been missing for over a decade. Plucked from the jungles of Vietnam to become an unwilling tutor at the Charm School, his former students are now poised to strike at the heart of America...

'Definitely the Russian spy story to top them all'

SUNDAY TIMES

'Takes us inside the Russian psyche - a strange and fascinating world of paranoia, fear, illusion and deep humanity. The best thing to come out of Russia since 'Gorky Park.''

MARK JOSEPH