King Rat - Book Three: Chapters 15-16 Summary & Analysis

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King Rat - Book Three: Chapters 15-16 Summary & Analysis

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Book Three: Chapters 15-16

Chapter 15

The next morning Mac is released from the hospital. Marlowe goes to the bungalow and shocks him by giving him the condenser. Larkin asks where he got it, but Marlowe merely shrugs and Larkin does not ask again. That evening, Marlowe and Larkin stand guard while Mac tries the radio and gets the station in Calcutta. Later that night, Larkin goes to Colonel Smedly-Taylor’s quarters and reports that the Russians are 40 miles from Berlin and that the Americans have landed on Iwo Jima. Smedly-Taylor asks if he is sure, then tells Larkin that he can do nothing to help anyone who is caught with a radio, and Larkin says he understands. A short time later, when Marlowe returns to his hut after telling the King the news, one of the men whispers the news to...

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