The seventh volume of the Complete Works of Boileau-Narcejac is the fruit of a fully mature collaboration between these two authors. The heroes of the novels of the seventh volume are still the same ordinary people, like you and me, who, according to the writers themselves, “can be met on the street, in a cafe or on the subway.” The intrigue, as is characteristic of Boileau-Narcejac, is very complex, and the ending is completely unpredictable. But in the works of the seventh volume, especially in the novels “Brother Judas” and “In the Vise,” the co-authors reached such heights of psychological analysis that they rightfully took their place on a par with such recognized experts on the human soul as William Faulkner and Francois Mauriac.