He is the author of the spy novel series SAS, publishing his first volume in 1965. He continued to cultivate his connections among the military and intelligence services. In 1964 Villiers began to write and publish spy novels. He found 'the blend of risk and cold calculation' in intelligence work to be 'seductive'. He began writing in the 1950s for France Soir, a French daily, and became a foreign correspondent. He also took a degree at the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris (ESJ Paris, Superior School of Journalism in Paris). The younger Villiers attended lycee and graduated from Sciences Po Paris, France's most reputed Grande Écoles and a highly selective Political Science university. His father was both prolific and a spendthrift. All were translated by veteran literary translator William Rodarmor and bought de Villiers and his hero Malko Linge to English-speaking readers.īorn in Paris in 1929, Villiers was the son of playwright Jacques Adam de Villiers (known by his stage name of Jacques Deval) and his wife. Surface to Air was published in June 2016. Vintage Books worked with his estate to publish his books in English translations posthumously, beginning in 2014 with The Madmen of Benghazi and Chaos in Kabul, Revenge of the Kremlin in 2015, and Lord of the Swallows in February 2016. SAS may be the longest-running fiction series ever written by a single author.' ĭe Villiers' books are well known in French-speaking countries for their in-depth insider knowledge of such subjects as espionage, geopolitics, and terrorist threats, as well as their hard-core sex scenes. The SAS series has sold a reported 120 million copies worldwide, which would make it one of the top-selling series in history, on a par with Ian Fleming's James Bond books.

According to the New York Times, 'His works have been translated and are especially popular in Germany, Russia, Turkey, and Japan. Gérard de Villiers ( French: 8 December 1929 – 31 October 2013) was a French writer, journalist and publisher whose SAS series of spy novels have been major bestsellers.

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