Scuds, Duds & Tyre

Joseph Wouk, an ex-immigrant to Israel, now a Hollywood television producer, is overcome with guilt and horror as Saddam's missiles target Tel Aviv. The sense of impotence, sitting in Los Angeles watching CNN report chemical warheads in Ramat Gan, is more than he can bear. Abandoning his wife and child, as well as a television film in development, he flies into the war zone to rejoin his old unit in the Israeli Navy. The only problem is, he's been kicked out of the Navy reserves for having failed to report for duty in six years. They don't need or want him back either. But Wouk is determined to "help"… Even if it means turning the whole I.D.F. Navy inside-out. Scuds, Duds, & Tyre is a hilarious and torturous new-journalistic account of Wouk's return to the Israeli Navy during the Gulf War. In a style reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson and with themes reminiscent of his father, Herman Wouk, the book is original, insightful, and outrageous.