Bruno Wilderman 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 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’s a communist agent with orders to stop Bruno at any cost….