 With "Le montage" ("The Set Up"; winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1982) Volkoff illustrated the methods and networks of tricks and traps of Soviet "disinformation" in Europe; the idea of this novel could have come from Alexandre de Marenches, director of the SDECE, who may have provided the factual basis for its plot.In 1985, inspired by his American experience, he published "Le professeur d'histoire" ("The History Teacher"), in which he portrayed a comic confrontation between a literary man filled with tradition and a young heiress surfing the wave of modernism.Power, manipulation, battles of influence and disinformation take a central role in many of his books, such as "L'Interrogatoire" (1988) and "Les Hommes du Tsar" (1989), a historical novel about Russia from the death of Ivan the Terrible to the advent of the Romanovs.