The Windup Girl

Anderson and Carlyle are drinking at a bar called the Sir Francis when white shirts enter and the owner tells everyone to leave. The white shirts surge through the city as Carlyle and Anderson retreat to the SpringLife factory. Anderson has had trouble concentrating since becoming mildly obsessed with Emiko. When they enter the factory, Anderson realizes that Hock Seng has left. Carlyle and Anderson follow Hock’s his path across hot roof tiles, jump from one roof to another, descend a ladder, and run through a labyrinthine maze of alleys, then catch a rickshaw. The traffic becomes blocked by a white shirt checkpoint. A Thai man argues with the white shirts and is bludgeoned to death. Anderson and Carlyle pass through the checkpoint.

In this chapter, the point-of-view of shifts to Kanya, Jaidee’s former co-worker. Akkarat and his men defiled Jaidee’s body, after his death; he was “dismembered, disemboweled[…]with his cock in his mouth and blood on his face, a package delivered to the Ministry grounds” (193). Kanya goes to Jaidee’s place, to gather his belongings, and finds an envelope filled with photographs of suspicious figures socializing with Akkarat.