Sandro Martini has worked as a word monkey on three continents. He’s the author of Tracks: Racing the Sun, an award-winning historical novel, and 2025’s CIAO, AMORE, CIAO. He grew up in Africa to immigrant parents, studied law in Italy, chased literary dreams in London, hustled American dollars in New York City, and is now hiding out in Switzerland, where he moonlights as a comms guy and tries hard not to speak German. You can find him uber-driving his daughter, chasing faster cars on the autobahn, or swimming in Lake Zurich with a cockapoo named Tintin.

“Tracks is written in a romantic, nostalgic tone, almost with a film noir feel ... tasty ... an eye-opener.”—The New York Times
“Martini’s storytelling is vivid and gripping, and his writing reads like lean, muscular poetry.”
—Kirkus Reviews