What with all the problems in postwar Iraq, it's easy to forget the man who provoked the whole thing: Saddam Hussein.

Where the heck is that pesky little evildoer hiding?

If U.S. intelligence can't figure it out, neither can Henry Beard and John Boswell. But that hasn't stopped the two from spoofing the situation with a lift-the-flap book that will have readers uncovering everyone but the Iraqi tyrant.

In Where's Saddam? (Broadway, $9.95), the authors feature President Bush running around the world looking for his nemesis. "Just wait till I get my hands on him," says Dubya, dressed in his cowboy best.

"Is he still in Baghdad?" asks the heading on one page. Lift the flap of a car trunk and you'll find Osama bin Laden.

"Is he in the Great State of Texas?" Hiding under the flap of the door to the Alamo are the Dixie Chicks.

Before it's over, readers will stumble onto O.J. Simpson, Geraldo Rivera, Monica Lewinsky, Dick Cheney, Michael Jackson and other celebrities in compromising positions - and they'll uncover a few good yuks, as well.

Meanwhile, the authors just might be contemplating their next hide-and-seek send-up. "Coming Soon . . ." says a blurb on the back of the book: "Where's That Darned Budget Surplus?; Where the Heck is North Korea?; Where in Tarnation is Dick Cheney?"

Patti Thorn, books editor