The Balona Klongs

THE BALONA KLONGS: A Demi-mystery Caper, the fourth Balona Book by Jonathan Pearce Foreign-born investor Putzi Purge who plans to build The Klongs real estate development at the town of Balona, longs for a driver’s license so he can drive his new Testarossa. Sheriff Anson Chaud despises Putzi, plots to "get something on" the discreetly gay entrepreneur. Sixteen-year-old secret-agent-in-training Joseph Oliver Kuhl is the only member of his Big Baloney class whose unlikable mother still won’t approve driver’s training for her kid. Putzi’s and Joe’s automotive aspirations converge to incite a murder that puzzles and disappoints even the murderer.