Pages 74-86 Summary

Zuckerman returns to the hotel. Within 15 minutes, two policemen confiscate the manuscript. The hotel desk clerk comes along too and says the policemen must search his belongings. Zuckerman refuses and demands to phone the American Embassy. Instead, he is told to pack his bags and board the next plane out of Czechoslovakia. He refuses again, but the hotel clerk warns him the policemen will use brutality to remove him. The clerk says the policemen will drive Zuckerman to the airport, but Zuckerman asks how is he sure they will not drive him to jail instead? The hotel clerk answers that he will have to trust them. Zuckerman thinks Olga had a change of heart and told the authorities on him, or the authorities called her.

In the back of a black limo, Zuckerman sits with a cop named Novak. Novak asks...