She has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Glamour, among others.
She wrote Red Sea (St. Martins Press), a true-to-life thriller about terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Her sixth book, Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country (Greenleaf) was published on October 15, 2024.
To research her novel, Red Sea, Benedek followed an FBI special agent working counterterrorism for a year, and spent hundreds of hours interviewing foreign covert operators.
Colonel Chandra Beckman, who flew her F-15c in Operation Shock and Awe, and was a flight instructor for the F-117.