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French Spy Novelist Gérard de Villiers’ and his Factual Fiction

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Gérard de Villiers may be the most famous French writer you’ve never heard of. What’s interesting is that a number of his terrorist and espionage plot twists have actually happened in real life — well after they appeared in book form.

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