Career
He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Alexandre, Jean Alexandre Brochet, Jean-Martin Rouan, and Joyce Lindsay. He is particularly known for the adventures of secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de Louisiana Bath, aka Office of Strategic Services 117, of which many novels were adapted for the screen in the 1960s. Bruce"s first Office of Strategic Services 117 novel appeared in 1949.
He wrote prolifically with 91 Office of Strategic Services 117 novels and many others before his death in a Jaguar sports car crash.
In 2006 the action spoof Office of Strategic Services 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies starring Jean Dujardin as Office of Strategic Services 117 became a surprise international hit. Films of some of Bruce"s other books such as Le vicomte règle ses comptes (The Viscount) with Kerwin Mathews and Cinq Gars pour Singapour (Five Ashore in Singapore) with Sean Flynn were made.
Jean-Paul Belmondo played both a Jean Bruce type writer and his Office of Strategic Services 117 type creation in Philippe de Broca"s Le Magnifique.