New Releases by Pierre Boulle

"How far will a frustrated photographer go to get an exclusive shot that will make the front page of every paper in the world? Can he take part in a plot to assassinate his country''s president?"--

The author of the Bridge over the River Kwai tells his own true adventures as a secret agent in the Far East.

The novel tells of the race to the moon. The story begins as the rocket experts work at Peenemunde; it continues as the German defeat scatters the scientists to America, to Russia, to France, to Japan

This is a very strange story. A Chinese executioner in the Middle Ages -- or at least at some far distant time unspecified -- is banned because it is discovered that he murders just before he executes! Good book about a Kafka-like society where you may kill but you may not murder. The motive of the executioner in doing what he does is not explained.

Satirical story of the tense relationships among French employees of a Malayan rubber plantation of the 1930''s.

Story of a French planter in Malaya, his American wife, and a Chinese communist girl, and what happens when their values come into conflict.

Polish refugee who moves in high British circles is suspected of being a German agent by the head of the counter-espionage.