

In the late 1990s, an insurance conglomerate offered to purchase the company, and David's grandmother asked them to double their offer. As a child, David lived two blocks away from his grandparents, who owned an insurance company.

He is an American who describes himself as growing up knowing that his grandfather killed two Germans in a knife fight before he was 18, even though he was never actually told the story. The novel begins with David as the narrator. The audiobook, narrated by Ron Perlman, was released by Penguin Audio on January 8, 2009.

It was released by Plume on May 15, 2008. It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines. It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad. City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.
