The Big Kill

November, 1984

The Big KillSo What is Tommy Wu, with his Harvard M.B.A. and his Wall Street consulting job, doing in the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, waiting for an Arab?Tommy Wu has no cash, no savings, nothing but an American Express card and a pair of cojones the size of Kuwait. An oil squeeze is on, Americans are lining up for gasoline, and Tommy Wu thinks there is a fortune to be made with a quick oil deal. A Score. A Big Kill. Megabucks.Hence, the Arab.It is Tommy's notion that the Arabs are always look...