Robert Katz’s Bibliography Death in Rome , Macmillan, 1967 Black Sabbath: A Journey Through a Crime Against Humanity , Macmillan, 1969 The Fall of the House of Savoy , Macmillan, 1971; also U.K. and Italy ( La fine dei Savoia ). The publisher called it "the final struggle of an Italian dynasty to preserve its 900-year tradition," but the subtitle is "a study in the relevance of the commonplace or the vulgarity of history." A Giant in the Earth , Stein & Day, 1973, an essay on the "population explosion" based on my travels in India. The Italian connection: my stint as an editorial consultant to the startup of a slightly eccentric international magazine called Ceres, published by the United Nations agency in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Cassandra Crossing , Ballantine Books, 1977; also U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Japan. “A thousand souls are trapped - on a death-bound train racing toward...” So went the blurb on the U.S. edition, one of two versions of this book: the original novel (published only by Pan Books, London) and a quite different novelization of the film – both a romp through the thriller genre. But the story has very sober origins rooted in Italy. For years after writing Black Sabbath , I dwelled on (and sometimes still do) the hellish train journey of the thousand Jews of Rome, trapped on, yes, a death-bound train racing toward… Ziggurat , Houghton Mifflin, 1977; also in the U.K.). A plausible but unusual group of terrorists builds a homemade atomic bomb and holds the world hostage, or tries to. My second shot at sending up the voguish international-intrigue thriller. The Italian connection: some readers detected similarities between Rome-based central character writer Zack Robertts and author Robert Katz, but it was my association with the UN in Rome, and particularly, my presence at a Third-World think-tank conference an implausible group of civil servants that led to an inversion of reality and not just my name. The Spoils of Ararat , Houghton Mifflin, 1978; also in U.K. A plausible but unusual group of adventurers climbs Mount Ararat in search of Noah's Ark; instead… The critics received this one best of all. "Swift and ribald," said PW ; "far-out," "elegant spoof" and "altogether ingenious" were favored by some a bit carried away. Not among the latter, The New York Times nonetheless allowed that "Mr. Katz goes about his story with gusto." The Italian connection: a dog named Dobbs. Available now at Amazon.com Days of Wrath: The Ordeal of Aldo Moro, The Kidnapping, The Execution, The Aftermath . New York: Doubleday, 1980, London: Granada, 1980, Rome: ADN Kronos Libri, 1982 (Italian title: I giorni dell'ira, il caso Moro senza censure ) Read the reviews: 1) the critics' praise; 2) a critic's nays Il Caso Moro (with G. Ferrara and A. Balducci), Pironti, 1987. Written as a response to the bitter political controversy that erupted in Italy on release of Ferrara's film based on Days of Wrath , this compendium of interviews, reviews and essays, published new documents on the case and includes the complete text of the final screenplay. Love is Colder than Death: The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Random House, 1987; also U.K., France, Spain, Brazil, my biography (and part memoir) of the great German film maker, with whom I worked. The Italian connection: in the sunset years of Italian cinema, in which I had participated, the wave of the New German Cinema came to Rome. Naked by the Window: The Fatal Marriage of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Sculptor Andre was accused of murdering artist Mendieta, throwing her out of the bedroom window of their 34th-story apartment in Greenwich Village. The setting is the New York art world, but the die was cast in Rome, where the couple lived in the early Eighties and our paths intersected. Dossier Priebke: Anatomia di un processo , Rizzoli, 1997 The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944 , Simon & Schuster, 2003 Source : TK