Armageddon According To Mark: The second novel in the Michael Fridman trilogy

Michael Fridman’s mother, who lives in Israel, is a nonsmoking, mature, professional Jewish widow with a sense of humor and a son who never lives up to her expectations. Her new boyfriend, Mark Schtirlitz, is a fat slob of a brandy-guzzling failure of a musician with a secret mission—he is composing a musical with a working title “Armageddon.”