Several years after his first notorious outing, Gerald finds himself lost in a distant country. A stranger arrives with a proposal to search for the missing Enigma Smith. The appearance of Roach Smith, who claims to be Enigmas nephew, sends Gerald plunging into new intrigues spanning several continents, and which involve a shipment of mysterious red boxes, the abduction of the Hollywood signs letter H, and the assassination of two presidential candidates. Roach Smith is the second book of The Smith Trilogy.