Used. Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz trades solemn headlines for a passport and a punchline in this brilliant, border-crossing tour of a combustible Middle East. Packing little more than chutzpah and a razor-sharp eye, he careens through fourteen countries from the souks of Baghdad to the tribal wilds of Yemen, finding human absurdity where others only find solemnity. It is a wildly funny, fiercely honest dispatch from a region where ancient traditions violently collide with modern misadventure. Grab a copy if you like your travel writing sharp, irreverent, and profoundly smart.