 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.In the 1990s Volkoff published "Le Bouclage" (1990), a novel about the insecurity of large cities, and "La Trinité du Mal ou réquisitoire pour servir au procès posthume de Lénine, Trotski et Staline" ("The Trinity of Evil, or an indictment for the posthumous trial of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin") (1991).