Turbo and Pablo - Detectives in East L.A. During the 1990s - The Mall Murders (Turbo Detective Stories)
Language: English
Published by Robert Nerbovig, 2026
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- Title
- Turbo and Pablo - Detectives in East L.A. During the 1990s - The Mall Murders (Turbo Detective Stories)
- Author
- Nerbovig, Robert
- Publisher
- Robert Nerbovig
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798233765841
The floorboards in our office always vibrated at 4:30 AM.
That was when the industrial mixers in Rosie's Panaderia downstairs
kicked into high gear. To anyone else, it was just the sound of breakfast being
born. To Pablo and me, it was the start of the shift. We'd sit there in the
dark, the room smelling of yeast and old cigarette smoke, watching the early
commuters on Whittier Boulevard through the slats of the Venetian blinds.
We weren't the guys who made the bread. We were the guys who watched the people
who bought it.
Being a detective in East L.A. in 1994 wasn't about high-speed chases or
cinematic shootouts. It was about knowing which delivery trucks were running
heavy, which shipping containers at the harbor weren't on
the manifest, and why a "construction site accident" at the new Montebello Plaza
looked a lot more like a professional execution.
The city was changing. You could feel it in the air, the ozone of the coming
digital age clashing with the salt of the old harbor. People were talking about
the "information superhighway," but they didn't realize that every highway needs
a toll booth.
I looked down at my desk, at the photograph of my uncle standing in front of
this very building in 1978. He'd been a driver for the wrong people, a man who
got lost in a paper trail that ended at the bottom of the Port of Los Angeles.
Pablo tossed a cigarette into the tin tray and pointed at the street. A black
Suburban was idling at the curb, its tinted windows reflecting the neon "OPEN"
sign from the bakery.
"The delivery is early," Pablo said, his voice grating like gravel.
"It's not a delivery," I said, reaching for the magnifying glass. "It's an
audit."
I didn't know it yet, but the bill in my pocket, a banknote that technically
wouldn't exist for another two years, was about to turn our second-story office
into the front line of a war for the soul of the dollar. The mixers downstairs
kept humming, heavy and rhythmic, unaware that the foundation of the building
was sitting on a secret that was about to blow the neighborhood wide open.
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About the Author
About Robert Nerbovig:
I have been married for 59 years to my wife Pat. I am a former active duty Marine as are my 2 sons. We live in the mountains of Arizona. I have been programming computers for business
since 1970 and designing and developing web pages since 1996. I am familiar with computer viruses and the havoc they wreak. I am the 26th great great grandson of King Olaf of Norway.(Saint Olaf)
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