title: Confrontation: Aliens and Humans - Allies and Enemies (Space Fleet Sagas) (Volume 2)
author:  Don Foxe 
description: Deepak Menon (author) - Review for Readers&apos; Favorites<div><br /><div><span><span> </span>The action and flow of the story is continuous and seamlessly merging. All the many protagonists are original, effective and memorable. Human emotions play a running part as the story progresses. I especially liked the author&apos;s style of descriptive and explanatory writing to lend authenticity to every being, object or scenario. The ending is explosive and thrilling.       </span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span>                        <span> </span>             </span></div><div>  Melinda Hills - Review for Readers&apos; Favorites                                          </div></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span> </span>Loaded with space battles, the will to dominate the world, greed, diplomacy, romance and intrigue, there is nothing missing in this fantastic science fiction thriller by Don Foxe. Confrontation: Aliens and Humans - Allies and Enemies is actually Book Two in the Space Fleet Sagas, but can be read quite easily as a stand-alone. There are many characters, but the relationships and close working conditions help keep everything straight, and the action carries you right along as each one does his or her job expertly. The outside influences are just one element to keep it interesting and the relationship you build with each of the crew members keeps you on the edge of your seat. This is definitely a book I highly recommend to everyone who loves space action stories.                                                             </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div><div></div><div><div></div><div></div></div><br /><br /><div>Review by BOOKVIRAL                                                         </div><div>                                                                        Science Fiction novel that delivers inventiveness in thought and execution Don Foxe&apos;s second book in his Space Fleet Sagas series is sure to impress with a sweeping narrative where the action rarely stops and a delightfully labyrinth plot that ensures tension and suspense are maintained till the very last page. There&apos;s no doubt that this is a thinking fans&apos; space opera with Foxe taking traditional themes and adventure plots and spinning them in unique directions thereby giving his readers something to chew on intellectually. Richly compelling, this is what a page-turner should be. A clever bait-and-switch narrative that masks the twists so you don&apos;t see them coming whilst a host of memorable characters and settings will linger long after the tale is told. Whilst these alone are reasons to begin reading it is, however, the dystopian echoes that set it apart with Foxe steering away from prescriptive science fiction to delve into conscience, choice and identity, to create a novel with a genuine archetypal quality.</div><div><br />By any stretch of the imagination Confrontation. Aliens and Humans. Allies and Enemies is a genuine gem of a read and is highly recommended.</div><br /><br /><div></div><div><ul><li>[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review]</li></ul></div><div></div><div>4 out of 4 stars</div><div>Review by Scerakor</div><div></div><div></div><div><ul><li>Finished reading book one? Excellent! Here&apos;s the primer that will get you excited for book two. Now that Earth and the human race have made first contact and that they have saved thousands of alien refugees from the evil Zenge, things will never be the same again. As the Zenge could return back to our Solar System at any time, likely with a much larger force, Earth scrambles to fit as many ships as possible with Space-Fold systems and advanced weaponry. The only problem is that Earth has already exhausted the store of crystals they found on Mars. Luckily for them, some of the refugees hail from the planet that has made their name selling just these types of crystals on the intergalactic trade market. Captain Cooper, the SFPT-109, and the rest of the ship&apos;s crew take Earth&apos;s first intergalactic trading mission to Rys in order to secure more crystals for both space-fold and for weapons. They intend on peacefully trading new, crystal powered tachyon canons for the goods on Rys, but it is essential that Earth gets these crystals. So essential in fact, that Captain Cooper has been authorized to take them by force if necessary. Will force be necessary?</li><li></li><li>Confrontation: Aliens and Humans - Allies and Enemies sees humans and aliens working together as a part of space-fleet on trading missions on Rys, covertly scoping out the Zenge invasion force on Fell, embarking on rescue missions against the Zenge, and eventually launching a full blown offensive. During this book we also get to see some of the history behind the Zenge and how they became the pawns of another race alluded to at the end of book one. How will Capt. Cooper&apos;s mix of humans and aliens on space fleet work together? How will negotiations with the Rys go? Can he and the rest of the Earth forces be successful on Fell? How will the rest of Earth support losing humans lives to help aliens? You&apos;ll just have to dive right into this series&apos; second book to find out.</li><li></li><li>This book was quite a bit different from the first one in that the focus of the story wasn&apos;t so much on the idea of first contact, but rather on human/Earth forays into international travel, trade, and battle. That being said, I enjoyed this book just as much as I did the first, perhaps even more so. If you enjoyed the action and fight scenes in the first book, this one too was riddled with excitement throughout. Right from the beginning the reader is tossed into battle with Capt. Cooper and the rest of the Space Fleet crew. Foxe&apos;s descriptions of space battles and alien surface battles were extraordinary. You would have thought that the author had grown up on the surface of Fell and dreaming up tactics for battles in 3D space. The characters in this book, both the new ones and those we saw in book one, were extremely dynamic and complementing to the story. You have the entire gamut of personalities from cute and cheeky, to militarily strict, and even full-blown evil. Foxe goes over an beyond in outlining the challenges, relationships, and nuances about operating a military mission with not only a military/civilian mix on board, but also including multiple alien races as well! What I liked the most, however, was that Don Foxe has continued to build the conflict of this series and a multi-dimensional way. We no longer have just one source of conflict (Zenge invaders) and we no longer have a clear enemy. Between the manipulation of the Zenge, the potential unrest on the home front, the necessity of obtaining crystals, the multi-racial/multi-special crew, and a Captain that can&apos;t say, &quot;no&quot; to a request for help, Foxe has created a melting pot of tension to serve to the reader.</li><li></li><li>I loved the first book and have extremely enjoyed where Don Foxe has taken the Space Fleet Sagas so far with book two, Confrontation: Aliens and Humans - Allies and Enemies. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.</li></ul></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>
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  Title Page
  Prequel One: First Line
  Prequel Two: Second Shift
  Chapter One: The Make of a Leader
  Chapter Two: Enterprising
  Chapter Three: The Hunt
  Chapter Four: Quite a Disaster
  Chapter Five: Strange and New
  Chapter Six: Progression
  Chapter Seven: Unexpected Closeness
  Chapter Eight: Finding Comfort
  Chapter Nine: Hide and Seek
  Chapter Ten: And Found
  Chapter Eleven: The New Plan
  Chapter Twelve: Firefight Farewells
  Chapter Thirteen: Six Months Later
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