PIERRE REY

According to IMDB: "Pierre Rey was born on 27 April 1930 in Courthézon, Vaucluse, France. He was a writer, known for Mot de passe, Vertige pour un tueur (1970) and Regina Roma (1983). He was previously married to Pascale Roberts. He died on 21 July 2006 in Paris, France."

The Times wrote: "PIERRE REY took the lives of the wealthy and well-known and turned them into gripping novels of surprise and suspense. With that he made himself rich and famous as the author of a string of worldwide bestsellers. He started with Aristotle Onassis, renamed him Socrates Satrapoulos, and put a pitiless focus on his love of such famous women as Maria Callas and Jacqueline Kennedy. The resulting book, Le Grec (The Greek), translated from the French original into English, German, Greek and a dozen other languages, was the first of his multimillion bestsellers."