Book description
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… 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 recognized as one of the outstanding
popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide
bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.
