Caravan to Vaccarès is a novel by author Alistair MacLean, originally published in 1970.
Eavesdropping, Bowman discovers that a man named Gaiuse Strome is financing the gypsies, and his suspicions on the real identity of Strome centre on a highly wealthy aristocrat, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, Le Grand Duc Charles de Croytor, whose girlfriend Lila Delafont is a friend of Cecile.
"[2] The Observer praised the "good descriptions" but said "the plotting is so obscure it might have been grafted on from the wrong brain.
[4] The novel was adapted into a film in 1974 directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring David Birney, Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lonsdale.
The idea for the film had come from Reeve, who was partners with MacLean in a business to make movies.