Gumshoe & Fox

Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye. Inspector Morris - Hermosa Beach P.D. Chief once again calls upon Alan to help him solve yet another case. Digging into the issues at hand, Alan uncovers an insidious plot affecting State and Federal civil authority along the California coast from Santa Barbara to Tijuana, Mexico. Layer upon layer of corruption are peeled away as the team reaches for the heart of venality

Alan Garrett comes home to California after a twenty-year career as an Air Force Special Investigator. He sets up shop in Manhattan Beach as a newly-licensed Private Eye. His old Air Force boss needs someone to find his derelict son under the Q.T. He commissions Alan to find him and bring him home. [when Alan takes on an assignment, he carries it through to completion -- wherever the trail leads] Being busy on another case, Alan sends his sidekick, Fox, to find the kid. She finds him heading south from No. Carolina! A few days later, "Boss! I'm here in Key West! He's here. I just sent some notes and pics on email. I'm going to dinner right now. Call me in an hour; we'll talk." Alan calls and calls; no answer. He books an early morning flight, bound for Key West.