A Spirou and Fantasio Adventure Tome 21
The Prisoner of the Buddha

Accompanied everywhere by his friend Fantasio and his pet squirrel Spip, Spirou is an adventurous reporter who fights all manner of villains in every corner of the world. Spirou and Fantasio, paying the Count of Champignac a visit, discover that he is hiding an imposing visitor : a towering Russian genius who has created an antigravity ray. Unfortunately, the KGB is already hunting him, because he's decided he wants to keep his invention secret.
And to make things worse, his former associate, who knows almost as much as he about the ray, has been captured by Chinese authorities. Spirou decides it is vital to free the prisoner ...