The Weapons of Choice Series

In Hostile Contact, a British Army reserve training exercise is interrupted by an alien attack, leaving officers and trainees dead or wounded. With their Corporal captured, Finn and his surviving squad pursue the aliens, eventually catching them as they open an ancient home belonging to another alien species, the Haven. With their Corporal now dead, and coming under attack from a second set of alien soldiers, they discover the weapons of choice, find a Haven spaceship and are forced to leave Earth under attack from countries trying to deny Britain access to the alien technology. 

In Return Protocol, Yasuko’s ship is forced to take the squad to Havenhome, specifically the abandoned Orbital Station. Eventually, they release themselves from the Return Protocol after discovering that a Haven scientist, Xxar, deliberately sent human derived pathogens to Havenhome’s surface 33,000 years ago. This wiped out the vast majority of the Haven and set the survivors back technologically thousands of years. This diminished society was controlled by the Haven Masters. Eventually, the squad recovers the data they need to find a way back to Earth but Noah dies. Yasuko is then ordered to remove the Convention shackles by a grieving Zuri, which she achieves with Smith’s help. Free to act, she uses Noah’s data copy and DNA sample to rebirth him. Noah has no recollection of his death, and the squad have kept it to themselves.

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In Zuri's War, they stumble into an interspecies war. After arriving in the Bathsen System, a cosmic dust storm takes its toll on Yasuko's ship. In search of palladium to resource the nanobots and restock the ship's mass, the squad land on Bathsen to find the human population under assault from a voracious form of slime mold. As the Boush get more desperate in their search for protein, the squad intervene during an attack on the city of New Halton. Later, Finn is captured in a firefight by a rival city. Zuri and Noah start a search and rescue mission, only to be caught up in another attack by a Boush horde as the creatures learn and bypass the defences. Once they finally rescue a mentally and physically scarred Finn, they go on to save as many people of Seth City as they can. Finn, with Yasuko's help, develops tactical defences with another city, aiming to spread the word that the humans of Bathsen must work together to defeat the Boush. After Yasuko's determined efforts lead to the saving of thousands of refugees, finally the humans work together to delay the Boush until the molds finally spawn.

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In Finn's War they arrive at an apparently advanced planet, only for Zuri to be arrested after Smith's failed attempt at buying a drink in a bar. On finding she has no ID or payment chip, Zuri is automatically imprisoned, only for her to choose fighting in the Tau Pit in return for a shorter sentence. During the final fight, Zuri is betrayed by an inmate, and apparently dies in the arena. This sends Finn spiralling into his PTSD, a mixture of black moods interspersed with a need for violence. The prison turns out to be a cover for selling genetic material to one of the Five Companies that run the planet, and  a still living Zuri is sent to one of their experimental labs on a remote space station. The squad discover this, and with the help from their brand new space worthy Battle Armour, rescue Zuri before she is subjected to the proposed  genetic harvesting. The squad, now fired up by Finn and Zuri's anger, set out to bring the Five Companies down. In response, the Companies commit a number of atrocities on their indentured workers, leaving the evidence for the squad to find. The book culminates in a battle on the moon with Smith, in his own Battle Armour, leading a squad of slaved power armour into the affray. By the end of the battle, they defeat the Companies and take out their leaders.

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Alien Rebirth sees Delta Squad arrive in a seemingly quiet system, only for Zzind and Ship to awaken an ancient evil. This alien takes over the communication and sensor base on Nutu Allpa's moon, as well as controlling the atmospheric suits of the soldiers stationed there. As its powers grow, the alien forces the suits to its will, killing the occupants while they acted on its demands to realign the communications systems, spreading its influence across the planet. Once it recognised Ship as an all too familiar design, it lures the AI down, and on entrapping Zzind, discovers the Haven were the genetic brainchild of its alien partner. In fury, it tears Zzind apart, and on controlling  a local mining facility, begins to build an attack ship with the intent of destroying Havenhome. The local Space Marines flounder in the face of the alien's power, their suits also coming under its influence, and Delta Squad faced the prospect of fighting their allies, dead or not, to prevent the attack ship from taking off. Once this mission was complete, they go on to tackle the alien menace, and with Yasuko's help, eject it from the planet and out towards the Node.  During this time, Yasuko begins to believe she may well be grown from the alien's mate, and during this passage of discovery, encounters an empty Node at the end of the book.

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Invasive Species focussed on Delta Squad, with Echo leaving, taking Ship and Zzind with them, and heading for Havenhome. In this book, our intrepid squad meet the Stratan people, struggling to survive after a nuclear war devastated a world already reeling from the effects of a viral epidemic. Fire Ticks are rife, these creatures spreading a bacterial scourge, with it causing paranoia, emotional distress and a drop in the ability to reproduce. Against this background, Delta and Yasuko work with the Stratan community to develop vaccines and later gene edit the Fire Ticks to reduce their long-term damage to society. However, along the way they find the Stratan mentality difficult to deal with, their threats against the mutated !Kora leading to conflict with those they are trying to save. As they work towards the eventual solution, Smith and Finn face a new threat, an alien intelligence inhabiting the ocean floor. One that wants humanity off its planet, giving the Stratan just 50 years to leave.