Circus

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Doubleday, 1975 - Fiction - 192 pages
Bruno Wildermann, a trapeze artist and clairvoyant, is enlisted by the CIA to try to steal a formula for deadly anti-matter that is kept in a closely guarded castle in East Germany.

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Contents

Section 1
9
Section 2
25
Section 3
41
Copyright

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Circus
Alistair MacLean
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Circus
Alistair MacLean
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About the author (1975)

Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 28, 1922. During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy. He graduated with a degree in English from Glasgow University. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a teacher. He wrote numerous books including HMS Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Dark Crusader, Satan Bug, Captain Cook: A Biography, and Santorini. He also wrote The Black Shrike and The Satan Bug under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. Several of his books were adapted into movies including The Secret Ways, Fear Is the Key, and When Eight Bells Toll. He also wrote several original screenplays including Breakheart Pass and conceived an adventure drama for television entitled The Hostage Towers. He died of heart failure on February 2, 1987 at the age of 64.

Bibliographic information

TitleCircus
AuthorAlistair MacLean
Editionreprint
PublisherDoubleday, 1975
ISBN0385110030, 9780385110037
Length192 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
Juvenile Fiction / Spies & Spying
  
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