- Subplots with civilian collaborators, spies, and captured enemy vehicles every
- Flashbacks to the truck development process or factory workers too
- Side missions: evacuation convoys, medical supply runs, prisoner transports cars’
- Epilogue: postwar trials, psychological trauma, civilian uses of military trucks tanks.
They lose radio contact and must navigate 120 km through occupied territory.
Encounters with local resistance fighters; moral ambiguity arises.
Sparks dies redirecting a jammed transmission during a drone strike.
The team fights off raiders using makeshift truck-mounted weapons.Sparks uncovers enemy jamming tech during a supply delay.
Will is promoted to lead driver after surviving his first night raid.
Leena finds her estranged brother—now a wounded soldier—on a return trip.
A new enemy tactic emerges: road mines disguised as debris.
Corporal Leena Yates
- Will earns his place after pulling wounded men from a burning truck.
- The enemy air force begins targeting convoys.
- They get orders to push into contested zones to resupply frontline troops.
Private Will Mercer
Main Cast of Characters
- Private Will Mercer – Quiet, observant farm boy. New to driving, new to war.
- Corporal Leena Yates – Hardened mechanic and lead driver. Witty, fearless, haunted by her past.
- Sergeant “Iron” Keller – Veteran convoy commander. Tough, calculating, carries the weight of every lost truck.
- Lieutenant Devon Sark – By-the-book officer who slowly learns to trust his drivers.
- “Sparks” Moran – Radio operator, provides comic relief, dies heroically in Part III.
- Major Anya Varkov – Enemy intelligence officer trying to disrupt the Republic’s supply lines.
Lieutenant Devon Sark
The novel is set in the fictional world of Euralon, in a conflict heavily inspired by WWII and modern mechanized warfare. The Northern Republic faces invasion from the Crimson Dominion, a fascist expansionist empire with superior air power. The logistics corps must haul supplies through shattered roads, sniper zones, and blitzed cities.