RIP

Considering the photo you aaatached up there I am sure he written some story about HRH, but what story I wished you mentioned it. I am not as sofisticated as you French speaking people so can not read it.

amirkabear4u Jan 

This book was a controversial biography published in 1975 when the Shah was still in Power:

Shah d'iran l'irresistible ascension de mohammed reza pahlavi .: Amazon.fr

I recall my Dad had bought this book in an Airport and brought it to

Iran. Everyone at the time had heard of it and strangely enough it

was not censored. Maybe because despite the cover it highlighted

some positive things about the Shah's  Personality and rule. 

However one of the most interesting things about this book was that

the name of Khomeiny appeared for the very first time, since De

Villier recalled how an unknown Ayatollah had challenged the rule of

the King of Kings back in 1963.

In retrospect this book appears as a model of excellent investigative

journalism De Villiers was a Journalist before becoming the  

well known International Best selling novelist.

He also seemed to have unique connections throughout his career with

people in the Secret Services. 

This is what BBC's Hugh Schofield writes about De Villiers literary Impact:

The literary world despised de Villiers' novels, with their formulaic melange of action and sex.

But the extraordinary thing was how closely they mirrored - indeed sometimes prophesied - geopolitical reality.

One recent book - The Madmen of Benghazi - dealt with the rise of Islamist extremism in post-Gaddafi's Libya and came out a few months before the killing of the US ambassador there.

Back in 1980, he devised a plot around the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was killed the following year.

The truth is that de Villiers had extremely good connections with French intelligence.

One French foreign minister has even said he read de Villiers' novels before going to a trouble spot in order to find out what French spies thought was happening there.

Thanks.