 He was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine "Orient Express".More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini having a Carabinieri "maresciallo", Benedetto Santovito, as the protagonist.Machiavelli's books have been published in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Japan, Romania and other countries.