Gérard de Villiers, the French novelist "whose raffish, long-running spy-thriller series, S.A.S., sold more than 100 million copies and became a kind of drop box for real-world secrets from intelligence agencies around the world," died last Thursday, the New York Times reported. He was 83.
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William Harrison, the author of nine novels as well as short fiction who adapted his own work into the films Rollerball (1975) and Mountains of the Moon (1990), died October 22, according to the New York Times. He was 79.
