Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.
<p>‘Great reading’ Sunday Telegraph</p>
<p>‘An action-packed story… finger-biting suspense’ BBC</p>
<p>'A magnificent storyteller' Sunday Mirror</p>
<p>‘The most successful British novelist of his time’ Jack Higgins</p>
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…
• This classic tale of espionage and a mission impossible was originally published in 1975 and is now reissued as part of a major repackaging of the key MacLean backlist titles.
• This volume is part of a new effort to re-establish Alistair Maclean as the UK’s foremost writer of thrillers and wartime adventures.
• Alistair MacLean’s books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide
• Many have been turned into award-winning blockbuster films, including The Guns of Navarone, Where Eages Dare, The Satan Bug and Ice Station Zebra
Competition: night without end;a legacy of spies;troubled blood;the;demon club;pretender’s gold;domino island;sentinel;box 88;bourne identity. by;desmond bagley;jack higgins;lee child;robert ludlum;len deighton;john la carre;robert galbraith;clive cussler;peter may;ian fleming;david baldacci;scott mariani
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.