Summary

Counter-intelligence funds have been sharply reduced to a pound per week per section member. But the money won't matter in the end. Informants do not inform based on money but values and social status. Later Lattarullo calls with news on black market operators. He appears leaner and hungrier than usual. As they walk together in the city, Naples feels like it is still tumbling apart. Few shops are open, and the restaurant they go to has little food and does not keep out the starving. Tragedy and mutilated children surrounded them. Lewis has a conversion experience, realizing that not all people come to terms with their suffering.

On the 5th of November, Lewis discusses two of his new contacts, Ingeniere Losurdo and Avvocato Mosca. He then notes that Naples was already in trouble before the war; the war hadn't destroyed everything and much of...