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?"--

Originally published as Le photographe. Paris, Julliard, 1967.

Author''s true adventures during World War II, which inspired his novel "The bridge over the River Kwai."

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

Science fiction-noveller.

A very near future science fiction story detailing the possible conclusions of the space race of the 1960s and plans to travel to the Moon and Mars.

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.

In this provocative novel, Pierre Boulle probes with a sharp scalpel the psychological anatomy of a spy - a man who sacrifices his country, his honor, and even his own life to an heroic image. In a story of intrigue and adventure as ingenious and gripping as anything in The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Mr. Boulle takes us from the aristocracy of British Intelligence and the German Secret Service to such ungentlemanly pursuits as torture, murder, and long-simmered revenge. The action revolves around Cousin - an intellectual author who prides himself on his own objectivity but who actually sees the world through the dreams of his own imagined superiority. World War II gives Cousin the chance to show that superiority by volunteering for espionage - a job, he feels, that is for gentlemen, and the arduous responsibilities of which only an aristocrat can assume.

Ironic story of a French intellectual in the British Intelligence during World War II , who cracks under torture but later tries to pay for his defection with his life.

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.

Secret moral lapse on the part of a French prosecutor leads ironically to his being hailed as a hero, while he becomes responsible for the death of an innocent man.

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