Circus / [print]
Alistair MacLean.
- first edition. in the U.S.A.
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday, [(c)1975.
- 192 pages : map (on lining paper) ; 22 cm.
It takes a five-man circus act with a psychic tightrope artist to get in and out of an East European prison safely. Bruno Wildermann was used to the impossible. A master of the high-wire who performed without a net, blind-folded. A man whose physical agility was matched by amazing powers of clairvoyance and a totally photographic memory. Small wonder the boys at the CIA caught Bruno's act. In fact, they had arranged a new booking for him. Behind the Iron Curtain. Seemed like the other side was working on a little project that was obsolete. The only way to get to it was via a suspended cable--charged with 2,000 volts of electricity. If Bruno could only get a look at it ...