The Cartographer of Cao Ninh

Every line Stefan Borecki draws on his map could bring bombs down on a village that fed him rice. A stateless Pole hired by the French to survey the limestone hills of Tonkin in 1953, he has spent his life measuring ground for other men's purposes. Then he finds a footpath that should not exist, and the war's eighth year forces a choice: an honest map, or an honest man. Some truths, precisely drawn, kill.