Fact: Only hours before sealing off all commercial traffic between the United States and Cuba, JFK sends his closest aide, Pierre Salinger, on a mission to secure a cache of prized Cuban cigars.

Four months later the president is assassinated. This is the story of those eleven hundred cigars.

Where There's Smoke casts a lovesick expatriate Cuban, an unscrupulous Southern capitalist, and a sanitized mafia heir scratching a midlife itch, in a barbed tale of intrigue and deception. From Havana to Cape Cod, with stops in Miami, Manhattan, Jamaica, and Washington D.C., the president's cigar's silhouette their pursuers against a backdrop of green, vengeance, and assassination. Like a fine cigar, the story unfolds in tantalizing layers, keeping the reader entranced, mystified, and craving more.