“I don’t understand how someone could disappear so effectively unless she had help,” said Chairman Jeng.
“It wouldn’t be that difficult given the size of the population centers in the U.S.,” replied Central Committee Member Yunshan. “We continue to search for her, but she has done nothing to attract attention to herself. She hasn’t used a credit card for several days, and the rental car she was using turned up in the parking lot at the international airport in Memphis, Tennessee, but where she went from there is anybody’s guess.”
“She had a tracking device in her, didn’t she?”
“Yes, but it stopped transmitting soon after she arrived in the U.S.”
Jeng walked over to the aquarium in his office and dropped a goldfish into the tank, and then watched as his piranha tore into the helpless pr
