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Weapons of Choice · Book 1

Hostile Contact: A First Contact Military Sci-Fi Thriller

by Nick Snape

Finn had thought he’d seen it all…but no…he had to admit…

Not quite everything…

There was a big universe out there and it was about to land in his lap.

Just how bad could it be?

Finn is a troubled war-hero, overseen by an unyielding Commanding Officer while dragging his group of rookies through basic training. When an alien incursion lands in the middle of a patrol exercise, wielding powerful weapons and alien armour far beyond their own, he is forced to lead the remnants of Delta Squad in a desperate struggle for survival.

Utilising light-reflecting camouflage, the aliens go on the rampage, killing indiscriminately and capturing Finn’s CO before going on the hunt. Outgunned, and with the world’s armed forces helpless to act after a second incursion drops, Delta set out on a desperate rescue mission, only for the aliens to reveal a weapon that could change modern-day warfare forever.

Finding themselves in a battle for Earth’s future, Delta Squad discover the aliens are more than they seem, and that alien technology can be just as deadly in the hands of humanity when they unearth a deadly secret ‒ the Weapons of Choice.

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Published
Dec 2025
Language
EN

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Bowen Greenwood

Jul 26, 2026

Audiobook

Rip roaring military sci fi

A long drive for work enabled me to finish the audiobook version of Hostile Contact by Nick Snape, Book One in his Weapons of Choice series. I said this in my last blog about this book: It’s Tom Clancy, but the bad guys are aliens instead of Russians. That just happens to combine two of my literary favorites! Hostile contact started a little slow, but about 15 percent of the way in Snape steps on the gas and never lets up. From then on in it’s brave military men and women fighting against overwhelming odds, risking everything in defense of their brothers and their ideals. Great stuff. If you liked Clancy, Larry Bond, or Harold Coyle back in the day, if you like military sci fi, or if you just like nonstop action, you should check out Hostile Contact.

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