Sixteen hundred miles. Two prisoners. One record a government would rather never arrive.
THEY WERE TOLD TO BRING AN ARMY.
HANFORD HAS FORTY-THREE PEOPLE.
The road east is finally open.
Two people are dead at Hanford's gate. Reconstruction Control wants the men responsible returned east to answer for it — and Graham Morgan intends to make sure the truth travels with them.
He will carry the evidence himself: the original directive, the authenticated countermand, the preserved radio traffic, and the testimony of the people who survived. Sixteen years after the collapse, a war is being decided by paperwork, and Graham does not mean to let a single page go missing.
He is also carrying a secret Reconstruction Control cannot be allowed to discover.
Someone inside the National Archives is still alive.
With Kade, McCann, Tehya, and a small company beside him, Graham drives sixteen hundred miles across a country being rebuilt one registry, checkpoint, and command post at a time. Every settlement under the Republic's flag offers another glimpse of restored order. Every decertified town reveals what that order costs.
The convoy must survive ruined highways, uncertain alliances, spring storms, and people with powerful reasons to keep Graham and his evidence from ever reaching the hearing. The farther they travel from Hanford, the harder it becomes to know whether the Republic is escorting them, watching them, or leading them into a trap.
This is not a war won with rifles. It is won with signatures, testimony, and the names of the dead — carried by ordinary people who refuse to let the record be lost.
At the end of the road, the prisoners will face Reconstruction Control.
So will Graham.
The Sixteen Hundred is Book Fourteen in the bestselling Graham’s Resolution series.
Begin with The China Pandemic and follow Graham Morgan’s journey from the first days of collapse.
