"To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark, 3)" by David Weber and Chris Kennedy

"To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark, 3)" by David Weber and Chris Kennedy
    https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Heaven-Out-Dark/dp/1250907411/
Book number three of a three book series of an alien invasion science fiction series.  I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Tor in 2023 that I bought new on Amazon.  I suspect and look forward to that there will be more books in the series as the third book ends on a mild cliffhanger.
I've got vampires in my alien invasion science fiction book !  Prince Vlad Draculya, aka Vald the Impaler, lives !  Or some variant of living as he has been composed of nanobots since the middle 1400s.  He does not drink blood but he did kill thousands of Turkish muslim invaders into his beloved eastern Europe in the 1400s.  And his nanobots are solar powered so he does not eat and is virtually immortal.
The first book in the series detailed an invasion by the Shongairi in which they used multiple kinetic weapons from orbit on every city on Earth of 100,000+ people and all military bases.  Half of the human population of Earth died in a matter of minutes.  Due to the fact that the Shongairi space ships could only attain six times the speed of light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated and they did not know that we had progressed from an agrarian society into a very industrialized society.
As the first Shongairi troop ships were landing on the Earth, they were destroyed by F-22 stealth fighter jets.  As soon as the F-22 jets landed at their hidden airfields, those were also destroyed using kinetic weapons.  After the Shongairi troops rampaged through the Earth population remnants and killed half of the survivors from the initial attack, the vampires appeared out of Eastern Europe.  The vampires were virtually indestructible and rode back up on the outside of their landers to the Shongairi space ships in Earth orbit.  They then boarded the space ships and proceed to kill all the Shongairi invaders in orbit.
The second book in the series details how the horribly damaged human population on Earth has to rebuild, both the population and the facilities / infrastructure.  But they have an advantage, the now empty Shongairi space ships and several Galactic Hegemony neural educators. Vlad Dracula has taken one of the interstellar space ships with a crew of several hundred and is headed 200+ light years to the Shongairi home planet to pay back some of the damage that they did to Earth.  And one of the few remaining state governors of the USA has become the USA President and is planning on creating a one world government to fight the Galactic Hegemony.
The third book in the series goes through the Terrans taking the battle back to the Shong System.  And to other star systems under control of the Galactic Hegemony.
David Weber has an excellent website at:
    http://www.davidweber.net/
Chris Kennedy has a website at:
    https://chriskennedypublishing.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,353 reviews)
Lynn