Circus
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Beneath the glittering lights and breathless spectacle of a travelling circus lies a world of deadly secrets in Alistair MacLean's high-octane thriller Circus. Bruno Wildermann, the greatest trapeze artist in the world, is also the CIA's most unlikely secret weapon — a man coerced into a perilous mission deep behind the Iron Curtain, where one wrong move means not just death, but the unravelling of an entire operation. MacLean, the undisputed master of action-adventure fiction, constructs a relentlessly paced narrative that turns the big top into a theatre of espionage and menace. His taut, economical prose strips away sentiment to reveal a world where trust is a liability and survival demands absolute precision. Circus stands as a testament to MacLean's ability to find the extraordinary within the seemingly familiar — and leaves the reader wondering whether any performer, on any stage, is ever truly what they seem.
Author: Alistair Maclean
Format: Hardback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Beneath the glittering lights and breathless spectacle of a travelling circus lies a world of deadly secrets in Alistair MacLean's high-octane thriller Circus. Bruno Wildermann, the greatest trapeze artist in the world, is also the CIA's most unlikely secret weapon — a man coerced into a perilous mission deep behind the Iron Curtain, where one wrong move means not just death, but the unravelling of an entire operation. MacLean, the undisputed master of action-adventure fiction, constructs a relentlessly paced narrative that turns the big top into a theatre of espionage and menace. His taut, economical prose strips away sentiment to reveal a world where trust is a liability and survival demands absolute precision. Circus stands as a testament to MacLean's ability to find the extraordinary within the seemingly familiar — and leaves the reader wondering whether any performer, on any stage, is ever truly what they seem.