Negotiations: Ryan Wilcox: Episode 1

Earth's Secret Alliance

The Zalmen have arrived on Earth hungry for collaboration. But they’re about to lose their appetite.

In 1947, a peaceful day at home for talented negotiator Ryan Wilcox is rudely interrupted by a phone call from the president. With the help of General Jones and Malcolm Dow, he’s to arrange an interplanetary alliance. It’s an opportunity that Earth can’t afford to miss. The aliens offer knowledge that will speed up the Human advance by hundreds of years.

But as with any friendship, the beginning stages require a delicate approach. And there’s one issue of “delicacy” that threatens to turn their partnership into an outright war.

Will Ryan the wordsmith rise to the challenge and find common ground?

Or is it the end of life as we know it?

Earth's Secret Alliance is a series of feel-good, alternate history, one-to-two-hour short stories. They have no sex, no drugs, no alcohol, and no crime.

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