Praised by Anaïs Nin as "an outstanding writer and a dazzling poet," he is also a spiritual teacher of Eastern religious traditions, especially Tantra.

[1] Daniel Odier began studies at the school of Beaux Arts in Rome but later chose to focus on writing rather than painting.

In 1975, he met a Kashmiri Shivaïte yogini called Lalitâ Devî in a Himalayan hermitage, a decisive meeting which he recounts in his various works on Tantra.

The books center around Serge Gorodish, a classically trained pianist with depressive tendencies, and his underage protégée named Alba.

These often result in the death or discomfiture of less sympathetic characters, although Alba and Gorodish themselves appear to be motivated more by their own profit and amusement than by any moral considerations.