Turbo and Pablo Detectives in East L.A. The Case of the Folding Containers (Turbo Detective Stories, Band 8) - Softcover

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East Los Angeles Turbo and his partner Pablo have spent twenty years solving other people's problems from a cramped office above a bakery on Whittier Boulevard. They know every alley, every contact, and every angle in a neighborhood that the rest of Los Angeles pretends it doesn't exist. Then a letter arrives from Turbo's mother, and the case that finds them is their own. Someone has been watching Eleanor Towers' house. Someone wants the old engineering drawings locked in her cedar chest. Drawings made by Turbo's father, Robert, a brilliant Port of Los Angeles engineer, who spent years designing a folding shipping container that could change the economics of global trade. He filed a patent in 1984. He died in 1989. And somewhere in between, powerful men with expensive lawyers made sure his work disappeared into procedural limbo. Now the money behind containerization is moving fast, and the stakes have never been higher. From the docks of San Pedro to the corridors of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Turbo, and Pablo follow a trail of shell corporations, federal filings, and old betrayals, racing to reclaim a dead man's legacy before it's buried for good. Some debts don't expire. Some work deserves to survive.

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