Circus
Alistair MacLean
268 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 044920412X
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Language: English
Publish: August 12, 1983
ActionAdventureCrimeEspionageFictionMysteryMystery ThrillerNovelsSuspenseThriller
Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world s greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world s greatest trapeze artist, a clairvoyant with near-supernatural powers and an implacable enemy of the East European regime that arrested his family and murdered his wife. The CIA needs such a man, and recruits Bruno for an impossible raid – on the impreganble Lubylan fortress, where his family his held. Under cover of a circus tour, Bruno prepares to return to his homeland. But before the journey even begins a murderer strikes twice. Somewhere in the circus there is a communist agent with orders to stop Bruno at any cost.