and there’s a good chance you’ll find Malko (he is Son Altesse Sérénissime, or His Serene Highness), the aristocratic spy-hero with a penchant for sodomy, in very explicit flagrante. (“Sorry, monsieur, we do not carry that sort of thing here,” I was told by the manager at one upscale Paris bookstore.) It’s not hard to see why. 197.įor all their geopolitical acumen, de Villiers’s books tend to provoke smirks from the French literati. in Istanbul,” appeared in March 1965 de Villiers is now working on No.
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may be the longest-running fiction series ever written by a single author. series has sold about 100 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. Though he is almost unknown in the United States, de Villiers’s publishers estimate that the S.A.S. “The Israelis knew it was going to happen,” he said, “and did nothing.” When I asked him about it, de Villiers responded with a Gallic shrug. In 1980, he wrote a novel in which militant Islamists murder the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, a year before the actual assassination took place. Other de Villiers books have included even more striking auguries. command center in Benghazi (a closely held secret at that time), which was to become central in the controversy over Stevens’s death. Christopher Stevens, and included descriptions of the C.I.A. The novel, “Les Fous de Benghazi,” came out six months before the death of the American ambassador, J. Nearly a year ago he published a novel about the threat of Islamist groups in post-revolutionary Libya that focused on jihadis in Benghazi and on the role of the C.I.A. Other pop novelists, like John le Carré and Tom Clancy, may flavor their work with a few real-world scenarios and some spy lingo, but de Villiers’s books are ahead of the news and sometimes even ahead of events themselves. De Villiers has spent most of his life cultivating spies and diplomats, who seem to enjoy seeing themselves and their secrets transfigured into pop fiction (with their own names carefully disguised), and his books regularly contain information about terror plots, espionage and wars that has never appeared elsewhere. The books are strange hybrids: top-selling pulp-fiction vehicles that also serve as intelligence drop boxes for spy agencies around the world. espionage series at the rate of four or five books a year for nearly 50 years. The book was the latest by Gérard de Villiers, an 83-year-old Frenchman who has been turning out the S.A.S. “It really gave you a sense of the atmosphere inside the regime, of the way these people operate, in a way I hadn’t seen before.” “It was prophetic,” I was told by one veteran Middle East analyst who knows Syria well and preferred to remain nameless. And most striking of all, it described an attack on one of the Syrian regime’s command centers, near the presidential palace in Damascus, a month before an attack in the same place killed several of the regime’s top figures. It detailed a botched coup attempt secretly supported by the American and Israeli intelligence agencies. Set in the midst of Syria’s civil war, the book offered vivid character sketches of that country’s embattled ruler, Bashar al-Assad, and his brother Maher, along with several little-known lieutenants and allies. Unlike most paperbacks, though, this one attracted the attention of intelligence officers and diplomats on three continents. Good judgement call.Last June, a pulp-fiction thriller was published in Paris under the title “Le Chemin de Damas.” Its lurid green-and-black cover featured a busty woman clutching a pistol, and its plot included the requisite car chases, explosions and sexual conquests. I think Obama replaced you with someone who was less interested in anal sex and keeping up his fancy château, and more interested in actually getting the job done. This book really drove home to me how much French people had came to dislike Americans during the later days of the Bush administration. Bin Laden is not presented in unsympathetic terms. He agrees, but has been out-thought at every turn: there is absolutely no chance of being able to kill the guy.
In the end, Malko is contacted by bin Laden's organization, and offered a meeting. I do sometimes wonder whether Malko is quite clear about his sexual orientation. It's far from obvious that they are as keen on the anal action as he is. He wanders around Pakistan, getting a lot of his friends killed and occasionally finding a hot woman desperate or stupid enough to have sex with him. Malko's latest assignment from his CIA bosses is to find Osama bin Laden and assassinate him.
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