Babylon Black

Babylon Black by Kit Sun Cheah

Book 3 of the Babylon series.

Guns! Explosions! Monsters! In a cyberpunk future with vampires and werewolves and worse! An omnibus of four novels in the series. I do not know how well they would stand on their own, because they continue the story.

They involve a kidnapping victim held hostage, a desecrated font, intensive training for a group of cops, shooting at a store, misleading werewolves, cyberattacks, and more.

The Red Queen's Reign

The fun thing about military advances is that they do not make countries more powerful and secure.  Except briefly, because every country growing more powerful is more of a threat to the nations around it, who must get the same advance or grow less secure.  

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