Circus

Alistaire MacLean. First edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $6.95 on inside flap. The dust-jacket is illustrated by Gini d'Achille. Original orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. There is some chipping on spine of jacket. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Doubleday and Company, 1975. No writing or markings in the book, 192 pp. 

Maclean's main character, 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 impregnable 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.