Circus - Hardcover

MacLean, Alistair

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Synopsis

Three aerialists-"The Blind Eagles"-are the top attraction in Tesco Wrinfield's famous American traveling circus. All three are Iron Curtain refugees and one of them is clairvoyant, with amazing powers of mental recall. For more earthly reasons, they have come to the attention of the CIA. Their penetrate a fortified castle and retrieve a top-secret-and very deadly-scientific formula. But before the troupe even sets out, an assassin strikes... Vintage MacLean with a suspense that builds of equal parts action, espionage, and the razor edged excitement of a circus atmosphere.

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THE MASTER OF ACTION AND SUSPENSE

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THE 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...

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