Part IV, The Gettysburg: Chapters 55 - 57 Summary

Pitt, Quintana and twenty-five men search the lower level of the military installment where Pitt had been a prisoner, but for a single guard, the floor is empty. Splitting up, about eight men to a floor should give them enough time to dismantle the communication system. Pitt has a singular goal in mind and when he reaches it he finds what he is looking for. His friends are still alive. He breaks into the room where they are being tortured by Gly in front of the Soviet officers. Pitt shoots several of them, then goes after Gly with the baseball bat he brought with him. Pitt fights valiantly, but Gly is superhumanly strong. Only by gouging Gly's eye out with his thumb does Pitt get out of the man's deadly embrace and Jessie...