The Charm School is a 1988 spy thriller novel by American author Nelson DeMille, set in the Soviet Union.

[1][2] In a 2010 FBI investigation, striking similarities were noted between a real-life case and DeMille's book.

[3] The novel's hero is U.S Air Force Colonel Sam Hollis, a former F-4 Phantom Fighter pilot[4] who fought in Vietnam.

Later on he was transferred to US Air Force Intelligence and served as an intelligence officer and air attaché at the American embassy in Moscow.

When the information reaches Hollis, he begins to investigate and discovers a secret[which?]