The Cost of Common Ground: A Story of Unyielding Foundations, Mud, and Rusted Truth
CHAPTER 1: THE TRENCH “Cut the engine,” Miller said. He didn’t raise his voice over the rhythmic rattle of the diesel exhaust, but he didn’t move his boot from the yellow tracking tread either. The operator, a burly man in an orange mesh vest that smelled of stale tobacco and cold grease, blinked down from…