A drug cartel gets attacked by Colombian Army. The cartel is short of supply of an anticipated large shipment to another cartel. To make up supply they steal supply from another cartel. In the process the manage to capture aliens and their technology. Then the cartel threatens the US government....

A great sci-fi novel. This is the second book in the series. The characters and story are well developed. The story is full of action and will keep you on the edge of your seat! I could not put this one down! I cannot wait for the next book in the series.

Thank you to #NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I have just completed my reading of an ARC of "Engage at Dawn: Seize and Destroy" written by Edward Hochsmann and to be published by BooksGoSocial. The book is a quick and not terribly taxing read containing elements of military fiction as well as science fiction and crime fiction. If that amalgam strikes you as unique, you are not alone. To be fair, for the most part, it is a work of military fiction focusing on the role of a Coast Guard vessel in seizing and destroying a criminal cartel controlled ship which contains both significant drugs and alien technology being used to transship the "product" to alien smugglers who are acting in violation of their star government's policies. If all of this seems a bit much, well I would have to agree. The text is well written and edited. Its Achilles' heel is in the role of the aliens in all of this and the human responses (none of which are terribly plausible) . In effect, the alien subplot serves as a kind of Deus ex Machina which sets all of the events in motion, and if you approach it with that in mind, it is mildly entertaining. I have read extensively in science fiction as well as military fiction, and while its military features, especially the very brief and rather anticlimactic action scenes are well done, if somewhat underdeveloped, its science fiction is something of an albatross or anchor on the whole thing. I would recommend it for younger readers.