KCR: Cobra War Book 1, Cobra Alliance (scifi, war)

Timothy Zahn is a prolific author that had created the first Cobra trilogy a while back (1990's). He's probably better known for his Star Wars novels such as Heir to the Empire. He has decided to pick up his series again by writing a new trilogy about the Cobra warriors.

Background: when the Troft invaders came, the humans don't have the resources to fight the war in space. So they went the other route... they created the Cobras, undercover warriors with computer in their head, enhanced metal in their bones, weapons in their arms and legs and fingers... They will be the ultimate infiltrators and fight the war from within. After a long struggle, the Troft invaders were thrown off, and an uneasy truce developed.

Now the Troft invaders are back... A faction of Trofts invaded a neutral planet, and soon, the rest of the human worlds. The human factions, weary of war and the Cobras, have mostly confined them to one planet. The invasion was discovered when a pair of Cobras were summoned to that neutral planet... smack into an invasion. Troft have came up with some plans to deal with the Cobra... Will human spirit win through?

The problem with the Cobra books is it's not that scientific. The idea of implanted weapons is not new, but the amount of weapons implanted in the Cobras is staggering, even with alleged 25th century technology. Also, it doesn't make that much sense for humans to have no space defenses or space forces yet have technology to make the Cobras. Still, the combat is exciting.

Rating: try it (like from a library)