Ze'ev Chafets – författare

Chafets travels through Jewish America and introduces a range of characters that he meets on his journey, showing all sides of the Jewish community in America.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Gordon inherits a Mafia territory from his recently deceased Uncle Max, he becomes a semi-don in order to fight for his piece of the mob.From the Hardcover edition.

Just when he finally comes up with a fabulous idea for a novel about a burnt-out writer who decides to commit suicide, Mack Green discovers that his publisher, who thinks that the book works better as nonfiction, has hired a hit man to insure that idea.

A New York Times Notable BookOn Devil’s Night, the night before Halloween, some citizens of Detroit try to burn down their neighborhoods for an international audience of fire buffs. This gripping and often heartbreaking tour of the “Murder Capital of America” often seems lit by those same fires. But as a native Detroiter, Ze’ev Chafets also shows us the city beneath the crime statistics—its ecstatic storefront churches; its fearful and embittered white suburbs; its cops and criminals; and the new breed of black officials who are determined to keep Detroit running in the midst of appalling dangers and indifference.