I holy-shit-loved David Benioff’s second book, City of Thieves, back when I read it in 2009, and I’ve been book-pushing it to friends ever since. (FYI, they’ve all loved it, too.) But I never got around to reading his first book until now (partly because it’s kind of hard to track down–also, I’ve...
Many know David Benioff as one half of the team that created the stellar Game of Thrones HBO series adaptation. And no problem, that show is awesome and it's one of the most impressive film adaptations I've seen of fiction. But I originally was a fan of Benioff's work as an author, with both of h...
Gripping Tale of Unknown WW II Heroes in Russia David Benioff, the author of "City of Thieves", is one of those fortunate few who has everything going for him in life. His father headed Goldman Sachs at one time (so presumably he grew up wealthy). He is very handsome and is married to beautiful a...
Burn scars covered his forearms. Whenever the hot grease leapt from the grill to bite him, he’d step back, wipe his arm across his dirty white apron, and stare at the sizzling burgers like a man betrayed. The first time I saw this happen I ran to the ice machine for an ice cube, came back and pre...
