Death at La Fenice is the story of detective Guido Brunetti, a member of the Venetian police force, who finds himself stumped by a series of murders with no apparent clues. The novel focuses intently on the city of Venice, its history, its culture, and its architecture. Guido finds himself quickly drawn into the frightening underworld of one of Italy's oldest and most storied cities, and in pursuit of a criminal more dangerous than he could have imagined.
Exodus is the story of Ari Ben Canaan, a Jewish political activist who helps to form the Nation of Israel by moving Jewish refugees into Cypress in Palestine. The novel also deals with an extensive secondary cast and charts their involvement in the formation of the new state and the challenges it faced both from the native Palestinians and from neighboring states. The novel also deals with the history of Jewish political and militant resistance.
Mila 18 is the story of Christopher de Monti, an Italian-American newspaperman assigned to Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. de Monti commingles with both the ruling Nazis and the oppressed Polish Jews, becoming close with members of both groups before finally joining the resistance as the Nazi plans for the ghettos becomes clear. The story takes its title from an underground resistance bunker used as a safehouse by Jewish defenders.