Life interrupted, Gus Bodine leaves his family and his sweetheart Addie Russo to join the USAAC as a B-17 pilot. Suddenly, his family struggles with rationing, and Addie is injured at work. Gus is shot down and endures the POW "Death March of the winter of 1944-45. He suffers from Scurvy, Typhus, Dysentery, starvation, and exposure while his family believes he is dead.Surviving the Night is a stand-alone novel coming on the heels of the Car Bridger trilogy: The Last Raider, Avenging Angel, and Mission Critical. Some events are based on the account of TSgt. Faye Bryner who survived the "Death March" from Stalag IV to Fallingbostel (Camp 357).