They Don’t Write Em Like That Anymore

10/23/2023 149

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Author Nelson DeMille

The Deserter and Blood Lines and Plum Island

Charm School – Spy School: delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns “The 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.

Different generations are interested in the cold war.
Sounds like
What is a CID agent – criminal investigation agent.
They are basically detectives or special agents.
They are assigned the tough problematic assignments.
You try to figure out what the detectives are trying to figure out while reading the books.
Civilians don’t pay a lot of attention to things.
They typically investigate army or military people.
An Army detective vs a Civilian detective.
It was the private investigators that ruled the late 60’s TV from McMillian and Wife to the Rockford Files.
The studio was so in love w/ James Garner that they said…hey what if I write Maverick in an RV on the beach?
The PI shows and books are just so entertaining.
PI’s are endlessly fascinating.
The Maze – book – people respond to the PI’s.
Many guys think to themselves, hey I could be a PI.
Everyone wanted to be Sherlock Holmes.
We all want to be the smartest guy in the room and figure the mystery out.
Did you guys have to travel to Germany b/c most of the book is set in Germany?
We had already been to Berlin in 2000 and we were going to go for this book but then COVID hit.
Normally we would go for research but my son and I both had already been to Germany many times so we just went off of memory and the experiences we had.
Berlin is a city w/ a tragic history, it was bombed into ruble during WWII.
You see some of these old buildings that are scared but still standing after this.
It was a city trying to recapture itself, they had this past WWII and the Communist Secret Police.
You saw the divided city, the Berlin airlift and the Red curtain….you saw a lot if you were in Berlin.
The American government and the Cold War – when you investigate the murder it reveals a lot about the society in which the murder was committed.
The neo-Nazi movement in Germany and the neo-Nazi regime.