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A French settler in colonial Algeria recalls the restless woman whose freedom never fit the life he tried to give her.
A naval officer recalls an Indian expedition where a prince’s troubling gift binds him to a child trapped by courtly power.
In colonial Algeria, a traveler’s affair with a married woman leads him from sensual confidence into a reckless encounter under her husband’s roof.
An old colonial officer recalls a seven-man punitive expedition whose celebrated success depended on ruthless deception and force.
A night of torch fishing on the Algerian coast leads an old school friend to disclose the jealousy that drove him from France.
An exile has built a fortune around one plan: return to the woman whose love ruined him.
A stranded collector hatches an extinct giant bird on a lonely atoll and gains a companion that keeps growing.
Alone in a remote Borneo observatory, an astronomer discovers that the darkness inside the dome holds a threat far closer than the stars.
A shipwreck survivor in a diving suit is mistaken for a god, but keeping up the role may cost him the treasure he came to recover.
A mild schoolmaster tests his courage with a harmless mock burglary and stumbles into a real criminal escape.
After crossing a feared secret society, an arrogant colonial traveler finds that revenge follows him from Sierra Leone to London.
A Brazilian gunboat sent against a plague of giant ants discovers an organized enemy capable of challenging human rule of the Amazon.
Two exhausted adventurers follow a stolen treasure map into a tropical forest, certain that murder has put a fortune within reach.
A young scholar traces his family's troubled history from a decaying English estate to a ruined city deep in the Congo.
Treasure hunters on a remote Pacific island discover that a Martian parasite can unite animals and people into one obedient mind.
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