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"A million dollars' worth of heroin," Delgado said to the silent men. "Let's call it what it is, gentlemen ... the most addictive and dangerous of all the hallucinatives used by humanity, a drug whose mere private possession in your country is a crime with severe penalties ... and you have hijacked a plane in flight, imprisoned the crew, imprisoned a man named Wulff who was in original possession of these materials, and then have brought all of this within our borders. And what are we supposed to do, gentlemen?" He kicked the desk drawer closed. "What are we supposed to do?"
"This man left fifty people dead in Las Vegas."
"Which man?"
"Wulff. The one we brought here."
They had brought Wulff to Cuba. That was their first mistake.
Barry N. Malzberg
Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than thirty science fiction novels and hundreds of short stories, as well as several thrillers and erotic novels under his own name and various pseudonyms. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo. His 1982 collection of critical essays, The Engines of the Night, was a major contribution to the field of science fiction.
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