Vailland's novels include Dr?e de jeu (1945), Les mauvais coups (1948), Un jeune homme seul (1951), 325 000 francs (1955), and La loi (1957), winner of the Prix Goncourt. His screenplays include Les liaisons dangereuses (with Claude Br??and Roger Vadim, 1959) and Le vice et la vertu (with Vadim, 1962).