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He cultivated spies and diplomats, and he insinuated himself so thoroughly into their world that many sought him out and were then delighted to see themselves appear - always under different names - in his novels.Ī string of French presidents and foreign ministers read him regularly and praised his geopolitical acumen, though rarely in public. de Villiers remained a journalist at heart, and his books were based on constant travel and reporting in dozens of countries. may be the longest-running fiction series ever written by a single author, and one of the best selling.įor all the kinky sex and gunplay that fueled his plots, Mr. Though largely unknown in the Anglophone world, S.A.S.
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de Villiers created his own fictional spy hero - Son Altesse Sérénissime, or His Serene Highness, was his code name - in 1964. de Villiers was often compared to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, who served as an inspiration when Mr.
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The cause was cancer, his lawyer, Eric Morain, said.
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Gérard de Villiers, a French popular novelist whose raffish, long-running spy-thriller series, S.A.S., sold more than 100 million copies and became a kind of drop box for real-world secrets from intelligence agencies around the world, died on Thursday in Paris.