The Road to War

  • 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.

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