Summary

Book One: Chapters 4-8

Chapter 4

Peter Marlowe hurries back to Hut 16 and finds the other prisoners who share it with him are already lined up along the road outside. Marlowe quickly sneaks into the hut and gets his water bottle. After Marlowe joins the other prisoners Captain Spence reports to Colonel Sellars that all of his men are accounted for. As the prisoners wait in the heat guards search all the huts looking for the radio they know is hidden somewhere in camp, but after three hours they have found nothing and the prisoners are dismissed. Marlowe takes a quick shower and joins Colonel Larkin and Mac – friends he knew before he was sent to Changi – at the “bungalow” they live in and tells them about meeting the King. Mac becomes angry when Marlowe tells him that he gave away the...