<DIV><DIV>In the seamy atmosphere of Miami Beach's Collins Avenue, Mila Katz, a streaky card shark and confidante of mobsters, lives by the wits with which she has survived the Holocaust. <i>Second Hand Smoke</i> is the story of Mila's sons, Issac and Duncan, the one secretly abandoned in Poland, and the other, American-born, raised as an avenging Nazi hunter, poisoned with rage.<br><br>Told in bursts of fractured realism and dark comedy, <i>Second Hand Smoke</i> is a postmodern mystery of great lyrical power, deep insight, and emotional resonance.<br></DIV>