CLAY: Roads Beyond: A Five Roads to Texas Novel

by W.J. Lundy

This is a stand alone Novel in Clay’s journey, continuing the saga of the best-selling Five Roads to Texas series.
In a world where the dead walk and the living are worse… survival isn’t enough.

Clay is an old soldier in a broken land—a man who’s lost too much to believe in hope, yet refuses to stop fighting. With his loyal hunting dog, Rufous, at his side, Clay navigates the shattered roads of post-apocalyptic America, where every mile is paid for in blood.

When fate pulls him into a desperate stand with a ragtag band of survivors holed up in an abandoned fairground, Clay faces a keep running… or make a final stand for something worth saving. Outnumbered, outgunned, and surrounded by enemies both living and dead, Clay will draw on every skill the old wars taught him, and every ounce of his cunning, to protect the few lives that still matter.

This is a stand alone Novel in Clay’s journey, continuing the saga of the best-selling Five Roads to Texas series.

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2025

About the author

W. J. Lundy is a still serving Veteran of the U.S. Military with service in Afghanistan. He has over 12 years of combined service with the Army and Navy in Europe, the Balkans and Southwest Asia. W.J. is an avid athlete, writer, backpacker and shooting enthusiast. He currently resides with his wife and daughter in Central Michigan.

I developed the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot series from notes and ideas I had put together while deployed to Afghanistan. I had been jokingly asked how we would defend against a zombie attack.

I wanted to tell a story that portrays the military that I know, that displays our actual capabilities. These are my thoughts, I hope you enjoy them, and thank you for reading.


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Reviews

[Jay Garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome series must read

All of the zombie apocalypse books I've read and I mean many, this is by far the
greatest series that I found. Can't wait for the next.

[Maggie Deaton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A tale of heroism and quiet determination in the face of overwhelming force and fear... It is a story of determined survival always moving toward freedom and victory....

[Andy Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plenty of action.

Good story. Does stand alone in the Five Roads universe. Good characters, noble heroic. Creepy antagonists, chilling situations More action than narration.

[George Moody · Rating 4 out of 5]

While a easy read, it just didn't hold my attention as well as his earlier series. I enjoyed it none the less.