
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.
