But there was someone playing an even deeper game: Dr Hall, who had deliberately leaked his own convoy route to get close to Quinn.
After news broke that Russia was sending a convoy to Luhansk, the Ukrainian authorities organised their own convoy of 75 lorries reportedly carrying 800 tonnes of aid.
All except one of convoy escaped, and by deliberately drawing the French away from his own convoy's direction, he had saved the Leewards Islands convoy from attack as well.
"By organizing our own aid convoy, we showed that we can manage ourselves," he said.
Sartre is an acronym for "Safe Road Trains for the Environment", but it is a perfect tribute to the great French philosopher who ran his own ethical cafe-convoy, leading his zombie-like followers from absurdity to absurdity over many decades.
When the riders were beaten up in Anniston, Alabama, Shuttlesworth, on his own initiative, organised a convoy of 15 cars to rescue them.
Certainly other slave leaders are mentioned Crixus, Oenomaus, Gannicus, and Castus and we cannot tell from the historical evidence whether they were aides, subordinates, or even equals leading groups of their own and traveling in convoy with Spartacus' people.
But Israelis have largely been disappointed by what they describe as Mr. Obama's indecision — a sharp contrast from their own military secretly striking weapons convoys in Syria that it suspected were bound for Hezbollah several times this year.
As the war progressed, though, aircraft acquired longer range and, more important, convoys had their own air patrols on escort carriers, which essentially eliminated the black spots.
Turkey moved a large military convoy of its own to the border area late last week.
