A fictionalized tale of a real-life Detroit race riot in 1943, Paradise Valley is a fifty-year-old paperback novel written by a man named Eugene Booth. With a New York publisher eager to reprint Booth's pulp-fiction classic, Booth's recent disappearance doesn't make any sense. At least not yet.While hunting down Booth, Amos Walker finds this peaceful missing-person case developing into something much more deadly. A notorious New York mob hit man, who's in protective custody and promoting his own tell-all book, is also trailing Booth, and a half-century-old murder is coming back to light. Between that killing and the story told in Booth's Paradise Valley, Walker is sure Booth has good reasons to want to disappear, and some people have good reasons to see him dead. For Walker, it's a question of separating fiction from fact, and keeping the key players alive long enough to know the truth. And that includes himself.A Smile on the Face of the Tiger is a vivid, gritty noir-style mystery.