Word: hula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hula, fat and fiftyish, owns a small marine salvage firm in Miami. Out of nowhere, he gets a phone call from his younger half brother, Michael Cruz. They have heretofore shared only a mother and mutual indifference (Hula's father was Polish, Cruz's a Portuguese seaman). Now Cruz, a New York mobster, needs Hula's help, offers him half a million dollars and threatens to destroy his business if he refuses. Hula does not. Cruz has somehow got hold of a ton of cocaine in Colombia and transported it to the Bahamas. A boat carrying this...
Once the cocaine is transferred to a van, Hula relaxes and tells Cruz: "So it's done. I'm glad it's over." Of course it is not done, either for Hula, Cruz, Wally Liberty (the pilot of the boat) or Hula's girlfriend Lisa Bishop. It is bad enough that Arthur Rawden, a canny investigator for the Drug Enforcement Agency, has picked up their scent. It is worse that a mysterious bald man continues to stalk Cruz, threatening to kill him and his associates. Worst of all, some of the ablest hired guns...
...Hula pointed at the gun on the desk. 'What about that...
...That's for you.' His brother picked it up and tossed it in Hula's lap. 'Have you ever used...
...Hula turned it over in his hand. It was heavy and cold, and the barrel was slick with moisture. 'No-well, once or twice. A long time...