in English since 2014, in the United States and other English-speaking countries. They are said to be studied by various intelligence services and enjoyed by successive French heads of state. Villiers published four titles per year between 1966 and 2005, increasing his production to five per year between 2006 and his death in 2013. Usually the locale of the story is featured in the title (as in, Les amazones de Pyongyang''' [The Amazons of Pyongyang] or Putsch à Ouagadougou [Coup in Ouagadougou]). Villiers was well known for writing novels that incorporated contemporary events, such as wars or terrorist threats. He frequently visited theaters of operation, doing research and interviews to ground his stories with accurate facts. He typically researched each book by 15 days on location and then wrote it in another six weeks. His sales were at a peak in the 1980s, but in the early 21st century, Villiers was still earning "between 800,000 and a million euros a year (roughly $1 million to $1.3 million)" for his books. This enabled him to keep a villa in St. Tropez and a "grand house" on Avenue Foch in Paris. Villiers's mastery of international politics sometimes resulted in his publishing books that seem "prophetic". His Le Chemin de Damas (2012) was set in the middle of Syria's 21st-century civil war, and it described an attack on a government command center near the presidential palace, a month before such an attack took place. In an earlier book, he portrayed the assassinations of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat before the fact. Due to tips from spies, he was nearly finished writing SAS: The Hunt for Carlos when the freelance assassin known as Carlos the Jackal was captured. English translations In the mid-1970s, Pinnacle Books published a dozen of the early SAS novels in English, which are now out of print. They include The Belfast Connection (, Furie à Belfast) in 1976. Between 2014 and 2016, Vintage Books posthumously published five Malko Linge novels: The Madmen of Benghazi (, Les Fous de Benghazi) and Chaos in Kabul (, Sauve-qui-peut à Kaboul), followed by three Russia-themed thrillers: Revenge of the Kremlin (, La Vengeance du Kremlin), Lord of the Swallows (, Le Maître des hirondelles), and Surface to Air (, Igla S) in late 2016. The books were translated and adapted by French literary translator William Rodarmor. Film adaptations His SAS novels have been adapted in