Before William Peter Blatty was the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist, he penned a series of comic articles for The Saturday Evening Post about his experiences in the Middle East.
Which Way to Mecca, Jack?: From Brooklyn to Beirut: The Adventures of an American Sheik is his hilarious, semi-autobiographical story, based on the Post articles, originally inspired by his two-year stint in Lebanon working for the United States Information Agency.
