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Book SynopsisThe 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 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
Trade Review‘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
