History Literature / FreewayWarrior

* RareGuns: Not quite that rare, but finding the right combination of guns and ammo is important.

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: The final challenge of the series is a HoldTheLine battle, where volunteers are called upon to stay behind and fight to buy time for the convoy to enter the California safe zone. You're actually given the option to ''not'' volunteer and continue on to the safe zone with the convoy. If you do this, Cal doesn't even get five feet before he sees all the convoy's other badasses (including Kate) volunteering to fight, realizes that leaving Kate behind would be unbearably shameful, and [[ButThouMust decides to participate in the battle anyway]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Done in a very subtle way. In the "Dateline to Disaster" timeline in book 1 (detailing the history that lead up to the apocalypse), it's mentioned that in 2008, the President of the United States and the [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp General Secretary of the Supreme Soviet]] are both assassinated by a HAVOC agent while on their way to a summit meeting. In book 3, you meet this assassin... as his (final) target.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union lasts right up to the holocaust in 2012.

* HeelFaceTurn: In book 4, you meet and recruit Cookie, a deserter from the Outlaws clan. Cal's fellow colonists don't trust him, constantly suspecting him of trying to lead them into traps, but he turns out to be on the level.
* HitPoints: Endurance Points serve the same function as hit points would.

* InstantDeathBullet: Whenever you shoot a bad guy, they usually drop dead without any further fanfare. Of course, in accordance with the trope, whenever ''you'' are fatally shot, the narrative will often describe you staggering or bleeding out or clinging feebly to consciousness for a few more moments before succumbing to the wound, because you're a gamebook hero and a simple "The clansman's bullets hit you. Your life and your journey end here" is too lame for TheManyDeathsOfYou.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mad Dog Michigan is an almost demonic psychopath, but his love for his brother Stinger is indisputable. As late as the opening of book 3, Mad Dog cites his vow to avenge his brother's death as his motive to exterminate Cal's people -- not Cal rescuing Kate from him (twice!), not Cal personally besting him and running off with his strategic map, not even Cal's colony crawling into bed with his old nemesis the World Defense League, but simply Cal killing what was probably the only human being that Mad Dog ever cared about ''as'' a human being.

* ActionGirl: Kate is pretty badass, for someone who got kidnapped or otherwise endangered so often. When she's ''not'' abducted or sick, she's comfortable blazing away with a gun right alongside you.

The ''Freeway Warrior'' series ran for four books, and is most notable for having been written by Joe Dever, creator of the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' franchise. Despite their different settings, the two series share many rules and similarities.