Reading these books you will probably notice that there are a lot of the same productnames coming back again and again.

First Malko is using a Seiko watch and now it's a Breitling. He drinks vodka (always Stolichnaya) and when it's champagne, it's always Taittinger. Malko isn't drinking whiskey himself (maybe sometimes..?) but when someone does it's Defender.

Earlier stories are always telling us that he uses Eau de Toilette from Jacgues Bogart.

In almost every book there's someone who decorated his house with stuff from Claude Dalle or there's a catalog of this interior decorator from Paris on some table..

And don't forget the Zippo lighters with the CIA logo!

I always wonder: why?
Is Gerard de Villiers getting paid to name these products? Or is it just to give the story something 'expensive', so you can imagine easier in what kind of setting/world Malko is living? Well, who knows...

The store of Claude Dalle in Paris, France...