The people that don’t talk, talk to him
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He might have sold as many books as Ian Fleming, but Gérard de Villiers had something no writer, no journalist probably ever had: access.
“The people that don’t talk, talk to him.”
For all fiction they were, his books were throve of hidden details, often going against the official story.
Informed details—Lockerbie, Benghazi, Hariri, Syria, India, Russia, you name it.
Prescient details—describing Sadat’s assassination before it even happened.
We will probably never know where the truth lies—it’s a grand chessboard after all—allowing us to dismiss him as the cynical novelist he certainly was.
According to the Ancient Greeks who defined it, Cynicism is rooted in lucidity.
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