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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder on the Cocaine Express | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder on the Cocaine Express | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...Hula pointed at the gun on the desk. 'What about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Books: Jan. 17, 1983 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...That's for you.' His brother picked it up and tossed it in Hula's lap. 'Have you ever used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Books: Jan. 17, 1983 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

This most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more than half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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