Going After Cacciato Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter Thirty-Six, Flights of Imagination, Chapter Thirty-Seven, How the Land Was, Chapter Thirty-Eight, On the Lam to Paris, Chapter Thirty-Nine, The Things They Didn't Know Summary

Chapter Thirty-Six, Flights of Imagination, Chapter Thirty-Seven, How the Land Was, Chapter Thirty-Eight, On the Lam to Paris, Chapter Thirty-Nine, The Things They Didn't Know Summary

The squad is in Tehran and their necks are shaved for the final time as the men will be executed the next morning. In the middle of the night, Cacciato breaks them out of jail. Cacciato has provided a 1964 Impala and an M16 for their escape, then disappears. There is a mad chase through the streets of Tehran, followed by police, helicopters and tanks. The squad escapes into the night with everyone sleeping while Berlin drives. His mind drifts from the observation tower, to the present, to Cacciato fishing in Lake Country and to Lt. Sidney Martin dying soon thereafter. The squad crosses into Turkey and Berlin keeps driving right to the sea.

Berlin thinks of the land of Vietnam. He compares it to the Midwestern U.S.A. where he spent his youth. He thinks of the Vietnam paddies, the hedgerows...
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