To research her novel, Red Sea, Benedek followed an FBI special agent working counterterrorism for a year. She has spent hundreds of hours interviewing foreign covert operators and wrote about an American F-15c fighter pilot. She has reported multiple stories about computer hackers.[2]
Books
The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of Navajo–Hopi Land Dispute (Knopf, 1992; University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, ISBN0-8061-3125-X)
Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman's Journey (Knopf, August 22, 1995, ISBN978-0679421436)
Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: A Spiritual Journey (Shocken Books/Random House of Canada, April 3, 2001, ISBN0-8052-4138-8)
Red Sea (novel) (St Martins Press, September 18, 2007, ISBN9780312354916)
"Beggar's Opera" (novel) "Saat der Angst," (Goldmann Verlag), March 17, 2014