His next book "The Stone Face", published in 1963, would be his last published novel. Smith had begun work on it in 1961 when the war in Algeria proved to be an explosive situation that had exacerbated passions in France. This novel evokes the anti-Arab racism that Smith was witness to both in his daily journalistic work and in the streets of Paris. Kristin Ross, in her book "May '68 And Its Afterlives", points out that "The Stone Face" is one of the earliest published eyewitness accounts (albeit in a fictionalized format) of the Paris massacre of 1961.