Turbo and Pablo Detectives in East L.A. the Case of Folding Containers

East Los AngelesTurbo and his partner Pablo have spent twenty years solving other people'sproblems from a cramped office above a bakery on Whittier Boulevard. They knowevery alley, every contact, and every angle in a neighborhood that the rest ofLos Angeles pretends it doesn't exist.Then a letter arrives from Turbo's mother, and the case that finds them is theirown. Someone has been watching Eleanor Towers' house. Someone wants the oldengineering drawings locked in her cedar chest. Drawings made by Turbo's father,Robert, a brilliant Port of Los Angeles engineer, who spent years designing afolding shipping container that could change the economics of global trade. Hefiled a patent in 1984. He died in 1989. And somewhere in between, powerful menwith expensive lawyers made sure his work disappeared into procedural limbo.Now the money behind containerization is moving fast, and the stakes have neverbeen higher. From the docks of San Pedro to the corridors of the Beverly HillsHotel, 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 forgood.Some debts don't expire. Some work deserves to survive.

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