The Greatest Lie Part 16

"Oh my God, and the highly-concentrated N9 group was the D's?"

"I was in the D group. Look what happened to me!" Lin cried.

"The D's have been annihilated, and the C's and B's have been decimated. The only group that has anything close to a typical incidence of HIV are the A's," I exclaimed.

"I'm so sorry. I deserve to die," Lin said, hanging her head in shame.

"No, you have to live," I replied. "We all have to live so that we can expose the truth about those bastards from Spartan."

"You're forgetting, Alexandra, that the main bastard is the commander of the Third Army," Nancee reminded me.

"Shit," I said. "No wonder Third Army security forces are looking for us. What the fuck are we going to do?"

"Call Eddie," Nancee said, pulling out her cell phone and handing it to me.

Eddie answered, and said, "Thank God you're OK. What did you girls do after I left? General Riap ordered you, Tran, Nancee, and a couple hundred katoey added to the drug blacklist. Exactly what have you crazy Americans been doing?" he demanded.

"I think I discovered that Spartan's products are spreading AIDS. Spartan did a study and I got a hold of their subject list. They stopped the study because the early results looked not-so-good. By the time I followed up two years later, the results were like, totally horrible."

"How did they find out about you and the list?" Eddie wondered.

"That cunt Pranatop!" I shouted. "I e-mailed her for permission to use the Spartan list, and three weeks later, the lazy, stupid bitch forwarded my e-mail to Spartan.

"Then the shit hit the fan! The roadblock, the requirement that all farang students report their residences, the disappeared girls, and the visits to Rosepaper they all came from Pranatop giving my e-mail to Spartan.

"Eddie, can you help us get out of here?"

"Smuggling is my specialty," he said cheerfully. "Get yourselves some hses and flip-flops and whatever you girls need for a long camping trip in the jungle."