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Circus
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Narrator
- Richard Trinder
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 2 March 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
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…
Critics Review
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‘Great reading’ Sunday Telegraph
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‘An action-packed story… finger-biting suspense’ BBC
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'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror
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‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins
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Details
- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- Narrator
- Richard Trinder
- Duration
- 7 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9780008461874
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Espionage and spy thriller, Adventure / action fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Synopsis
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 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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