"Out of the Dark" by David Weber

"Out of the Dark" by David Weber
    https://www.amazon.com/Out-Dark-David-Weber/dp/076536381X/
Book number one of a three book science fiction alien invasion series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Tor in 2011 that I bought new on Amazon recently.  I did have the hardback that I bought in 2011 but the dirt dobbers destroyed that book in my garage storage.  I have the other two books in the series and plan to reread the second book soon and read the third book that I bought recently.
The Shongairi, a canine omnivore aggressive race of the Galactic Hegemony, announced their presence in Earth orbit by dropping thousands of kinetic weapons and killing a quarter of the human race on the first day.  The Shongairi then landed enormous numbers of troops and weapons and tried to force the human race to submit as they had done to several other alien space races.  But humans do not submit and we fought back, losing another quarter of the human race to the invading ground soldiers and more kinetic strikes.  And starvation and disease.
Hey, there are vampires in my alien invasion story !  Leave it to Weber to write a great alien invasion story and then use a deus ex machina of Vampires in the last 50 pages of the story to close it out.  Worked for me but quite a few people on Amazon did not like it.  Also, Weber really cut back on his description of military technology in the book, not that I care.  Also, Weber makes a great argument for private ownership of Stinger missiles (MANPADS).
The author has a website at:
    https://www.davidweber.net/
My rating:  5 out of 5 stars (I raised my rating on the reread from 4 stars)
Amazon rating:  4.3 out of 5 stars (3,927 reviews)
Lynn