Tumpane’s account of his years living in Diyarbakir, Izmir, and Ankara—describes plenty of imbibing. It also describes expeditions to ruins, hijinks in nightclubs, and wacky interactions with Turks, Kurds, and expatriates. Although entertaining and well written, the book was never picked up by a publisher. Tumpane self-published Scotch and Holy Water in 1981 but, without national distribution and marketing, the book went largely unnoticed.