Columbus Day

During his vacation, US Army private Joe Bishop finds himself at the epicenter of an invasion: aliens attack his hometown, and a crash of an enemy ship changes the situation even more. People have to defend themselves with whatever they have on hand, and this improvised defense is just the beginning. After encountering a captured alien, the hero is sent to a place where local skirmishes have long turned into a large war between races. Among new allies and opponents, he has to figure out whom to trust, why humanity got caught up in a foreign conflict, and what role a haughty artificial intelligence named Skippy will play in this.