Alien: Enemy of My Enemy: An Original Novel Based on the Films from 20th Century Studios


 Contents
 Cover
 Title Page
 Leave us a Review
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Part I: Serpent Moon
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 Part II: Exit Plan
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 Part III: Into The Fire
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 Epilogue
 Acknowledgements
 About the Author
 
 THE COMPLETE ALIEN™ LIBRARY FROM TITAN BOOKS
 The Official Movie Novelizations
 by Alan Dean Foster
 Alien, Aliens™, Alien 3, Alien: Covenant,Alien: Covenant Origins
 Alien: Resurrection by A.C. Crispin
 Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplayby William Gibson & Pat Cadigan
 Alien
 Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
 Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore
 River of Pain by Christopher Golden
 The Cold Forge by Alex White
 Isolation by Keith R.A. DeCandido
 Prototype by Tim Waggoner
 Into Charybdis by Alex White
 Colony War by David Barnett
 Inferno’s Fall by Philippa Ballantine
 Enemy of My Enemy by Mary SanGiovanni
 The Rage War
 by Tim Lebbon
 Predator™: Incursion, Alien: Invasion
 Alien vs. Predator™: Armageddon
 Aliens
 Bug Hunt edited by Jonathan Maberry
 Phalanx by Scott Sigler
 Infiltrator by Weston Ochse
 Vasquez by V. Castro
 The Complete Aliens Omnibus
 Volumes 1–7
 Aliens vs. Predators
 Ultimate Prey edited by Jonathan Maberry & Bryan Thomas Schmidt
 Rift War by Weston Ochse & Yvonne Navarro
 The Complete Aliens vs. Predator Omnibus
 by Steve Perry & S.D. Perry
 Predator
 If It Bleeds edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
 The Predator by Christopher Golden & Mark Morris
 The Predator: Hunters and Hunted by James A. Moore
 Stalking Shadows by James A. Moore & Mark Morris
 Eyes of the Demon edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
 The Complete Predator Omnibusby Nathan Archer & Sandy Scofield
 Non-Fiction
 AVP: Alien vs. Predator by Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff, Jr.
 Aliens vs. Predator Requiem: Inside The Monster Shop by Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff, Jr.
 Alien: The Illustrated Story by Archie Goodwin & Walter Simonson
 The Art of Alien: Isolation by Andy McVittie
 Alien: The Archive
 Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report by S.D. Perry
 Aliens: The Set Photography by Simon Ward
 Alien: The Coloring Book
 The Art and Making of Alien: Covenant by Simon Ward
 Alien Covenant: David’s Drawings by Dane Hallett & Matt Hatton
 The Predator: The Art and Making of the Film by James Nolan
 The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler
 Alien: The Blueprints by Graham Langridge
 Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists
 Alien: The Official Cookbook by Chris-Rachael Oseland
 Aliens: Artbook by Printed In Blood
 
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 ALIEN™: ENEMY OF MY ENEMY
 Print edition ISBN: 9781803360980
 E-book edition ISBN: 9781803361123
 Published by Titan Books
 A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
 144 Southwark St, London SE1 0UP
 First edition: February 2023
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 This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead (except for satirical purposes), is entirely coincidental.
 © 2023 20th Century Studios.
 Mary SanGiovanni asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
 A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
 This book is dedicated to Mike Lombardo and Wes Southard
 P A R T I
 S E R P E N T M O O N
 1
 The man in the first of the medical pods began to convulse, his abdomen swelling and stretching from the thing inside it. This was not unexpected; like the other test subjects, his arms and legs had been restrained by silicon bands, and he had been sedated. The figure standing at the glass observation window didn’t show any alarm, even when the desperate struggling turned to violent bucking, and the moaning to shouts of pain.
 “Mark down three weeks,” the older, dark-haired man behind the window said to his assistant. He touched his beard, his expression unreadable. Behind the narrow-rimmed glasses, his eyes focused on the savage reaction just a pane of glass away from them.
 Sitting in a chair behind a computer terminal, the assistant felt a chill. Their surroundings did nothing to soothe the nerves. Most of the Menhit Biowarfare Science Facility on moon BG-791 was a soulless series of metallic pipes and beams, compartments and moldings of ashy and charcoal hues. Its external architecture had been designed to blend in with the tall geometric rocks that formed its mountainous backdrop.
 The medlab was bathed in harsh, uneven light, with multiple recording devices capturing both video and audio from various points around the chamber. The important areas of the facility were like that—at once thoroughly modern and outfitted with the best equipment that Weyland-Yutani money could buy, but now just as harsh and uneven, failing more often than functioning. The deterioration of the moon on which the lab was located had wreaked havoc on the electrical and magnetic systems, making continued research difficult at best. Their personnel had been halved again and again until they were left with twenty or so scientists, researchers, and volunteers. The increasingly frequent storms outside the facility posed an ever-present threat to its structural integrity.
 Nerves were on edge.
 Tempers flared.
 Still, the remaining men and women of the Menhit Lab continued with their experiments.