- The convoy team assembles and trains under harsh conditions.
- Will learns to drive under fire as a training accident turns deadly.
- First deployment: A resupply run turns into an ambush; they lose three trucks.
- Leena saves the squad with a roadside repair under gunfire.
- 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.
- The team must traverse Devil’s Pass, a narrow mountain road regularly bombed.
- A storm hits, causing landslides; one truck falls into the ravine.
- They deliver fuel to a tank battalion just before a major offensive.
- 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.
Road
- The battalion is ordered to support a breakout operation behind enemy lines.
- 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.
- Will and Keller argue over abandoning a crippled truck. Keller stays behind.
- The survivors arrive with the last of the fuel—just enough to keep the front alive.
A final mission: supply an encircled division holding the capital’s eastern gate.
The convoy is under constant fire; multiple bridges destroyed.
Will loses half his team on a destroyed causeway.
Leena and Will lead a suicide run through a collapsed tunnel system.
They reach the defenders with fuel and ammo—but no way back.
Keller, presumed dead, reappears with reinforcements.
The battle is won; the city is saved.
The novel ends with Will sitting atop a wrecked truck, holding the unit’s flag.
Leena and Will lead a suicide run through a collapsed tunnel system.