When I type his name in the search engine of my online French bookstore, there are 420 results. Thankfully for Anglophone readers, his books haven’t been translated in English. He is a prolix author of hundreds of books of a series named SAS. I started reading a few pages only to discover that my mind had gone wandering far away from the book and that I couldn’t remember what I had just read.īut, back to the glorious Gérard de Villiers. I have vivid memories of me, lying on my bed at my parents’ and urging myself “come on, only 50 pages left. It brought me back to school days, when I had to read books I found boring. She had read a few pages, thought it was very descriptive and that I would like it.įace to face with such a love as only children can give, I had no other solution as to read the book, which turned out to be, as expected, a painful experience. She explained to me that she knew I wouldn’t like the cover but she chose it anyway because I enjoy reading crime fiction. I thought she had chosen it because of the cover, but no, the choice was even more thoughtful. A couple of weeks ago, my daughter picked up L’Otage du triangle d’or by Gérard de Villiers, while she was at the library with the nanny. In the hall of our local library stands a basket where readers can drop their books and other people can take them home for free.
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