Circus

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The classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the worlds 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 worlds 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 is 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

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Great reading Sunday Telegraph

An action-packed story finger-biting suspense BBC

'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror

The most successful British novelist of his time Jack Higgins

Author Bio

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognised as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.