“Tiger Trap va faire beaucoup de mal aux bad boys” “Matt Grit est un des meilleurs assets de la Company.” “Ces types sont la crème du Crime Organisé à Bangkok. So, here are little excerpts of Villiers’s fine “Frenglish” prose: The language is terrible, full of English words and American expressions with footnotes for the translation (!!) I thought the French dictionary included enough words and insults to satisfy such a silly writer, but apparently not. I hope my daughter didn’t browse through page 43 where the first blow job is meticulously described. A book aimed at pleasing lobotomised male readers. Women are only objects, bought, used as sex toys.
It is full of wicked Chinese and oriental torture methods, like cut fingers. It’s like an indigestible lasagne dish: one layer of violence, one layer of sex, one layer of violence, etc. Malko Linge, who seem to be the recurring character of the series, is called upon by the CIA to clear this mess. The drug dealer made a prosecution deal and is to be extradited to the USA. The local CIA officer, Mike Herald is informed that Matt Gritt will be liberated if a drug dealer kept by the DEA in a drug traffic investigation is freed too. The plot is the following: In Thailand, the CIA agent Matt Gritt is kidnapped by Khun Sa. All crime fiction, I don’t know which genre, the one with spies, CIA, DEA, drug dealers and nasty dictators. 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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