The Tenacious Goldbrick: 5 (Truman and Celeste Books)

When a stranger jumps into Celestes car and begs her to help him escape his pursuer she decides to help him out. Drawn into the mystery Truman tries to help Rolán recover some compromising evidence that his former boss Davo is using to blackmail him. Davo turns out to be more than a penny-ante local crook with an expensive secret and shadowy connections overseas. Working undercover Celeste collaborates with Mariam Davos wife on a design project and gradually gets more entangled with her when Mariam asks for her help navigating LAs art world.Things come to a head in a cluttered self-storage unit when Truman and Celeste uncover the truth about Rolán and learn what Davo is really up to. The feds intercede when the pair get ensnared in their surveillance of the players. Celeste has to decide whether her feelings for their goldbrick client are eclipsed by his bad behavior while Truman blithely hits on the G-man and hooks up with one of the tangential lowlifes.Join the bar-hopping booze-swilling duo as their digging pushes things right to the edge where Truman and Celeste have to figure out whether to do whats easy or do whats right.