An acclaimed author goes home to Detroit and takes the reader on a funny, disturbing tour of America's most troubled city. Contrasting the industrial might and middle-class stability of the Detroit of his youth with its current blight and decay, Chafets creates a real portrait of a dying city.
Mack Green finally has a million-dollar book idea. It's about a burnt-out writer--kind of like himself--who decides to make peace with his past and then end his life. The problem is, Mack's editor thinks it works better as nonfiction. "The Book Makers" takes on the publishing industry, the modern Mafia, and the supporters of suicide. It features ...
NBA great Tyrone Holliman isn't too thrilled to be traveling to Israel with legendary NCAA coach Digger Dawkins, but as an ambassador for his sport, he knows how to play the game. But neither man can imagine what lies ahead--armed abduction by Muslim terrorists that locks America and the Arab world in a confrontation that threatens to become World ...
It's 10 years after the Gulf War and Speaker of the House Dewey Goldberg has been sworn in as President of the United States following the accidental deaths of his predecessors. But he soon discovers that Israeli Prime Minister Elihu Barzel may be backing a fundamentalist opponent. Concerned, he dispatches his journalist-friend Charlie Walker to ...
Filled with off-the-wall ethnic characters and farcical complications, Zev Chafets' fictional debut is the funniest novel about the Mafia since Prizzi's Honor. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist inherits a "piece of the action" from his uncle, the last of the great Jewish mobsters, and what follows is a series of murderously funny plot twists ...
Chafets, who grew up on the American heartland, returns after 20 years to journey coast-to-coast reporting on: a political Jew hunt in Iowa, the last Cajun Jews in the Bayou and more. A moving, funny and insightful book on the contemporary Jewish experience.
Widely acclaimed, Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men is a penetrating iconoclastic, and often hilarious report on the place author Ze'ev Chafets calls "a good country in a bad neighborhood".
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
