Season of the Harvest (Harvest Trilogy)

It was last August when I first read, and quite enjoyed, a book by Michael R. Hicks. There was something about his sci-fi that didn't quite click with me, not in the way some others have, so I was pleasantly surprised to be utterly captivated by this thriller.

There's still aliens, but there's also a great pump action feel blasting its way through the pages. Micro-military action, you might say; there's no real squads or units in primary focus, but they do appear sometimes and even without them the action is explosive enough by itself. As with First Contact, Hicks plays the international stage very well, and with the focus more earthbound and the bullets flying, I am impressed and will certainly buy book two in the series. This one, being the first, was <a href="http://authormichaelhicks.com/free-novel/"completely free and available from the author's page here.