Chapter Twenty-Nine, Atrocities on the Road to Paris, Chapter Thirty, The Observation Post Summary

The squad is in Tehran where they celebrate Christmas. The lieutenant is sick again and remains ill through January of 1969. The squad wants to get a doctor but Doc Peret says it is an illness that cannot be cured with medicine; the lieutenant has nostalgia and just needs time. The squad continues to search for Cacciato but they stay close to the boardinghouse they rented.

One day the men happen to be in an audience at a hanging and are arrested afterwards when they are searching for a restaurant. Their interrogator is a polite captain in His Majesty's Royal Fusiliers and his assignment is with Internal Security. The squad insists it is comprised of touring soldiers on a special...