Looking for - Enemies have to work together for a common goal

[[deleted user]]

I am looking for any genre where enemies have to work together even for a short time to get something done, escape from somewhere, etc. Thanks.

[Shanna_redwind]

Zero Hour. I can't remember the specifics, but I have it shelved under enemy of my enemy and I remember the enemies working together theme from it. I'm looking for the same sort of thing, so I'll be watching here. There's a couple posted in a thread I started here

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[TinaNoir]

Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold

[Kathy]

Just about any book with a spy or undercover cop would fall into this category, likewise any one in which one party has an advantage, e.g. a drawn gun, over the other. If you mean they knowingly and/or willingly work together, how about:

* the latest in Joanne Harris's Chocolat series, Peaches for Father Francis (a by-the-book priest and the free soul he battled in an earlier book work separately on the same problem, eventually coming together);
* Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (a demon and an angel with opposite assignments end up in a Casablanca-style "beautiful friendship");
* Evan Hunter's The Blackboard Jungle (a few of the students who have taunted and threatened a teacher all year take his side when faced with a mutual enemy);
* The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (two descendents of feuding families are hereditary enemies but fall in love).

[Rachel]

The Never List has a plot along these lines. Three women who were once held captive by a psychopath team up to prevent their abductor's release when his parole hearing approaches. Two of the women hate each other and the third wants nothing to do with them, and over time you realise the reasons behind this.

[Joseph]

My suggestion is not as serious as I think you are looking for, but it is a fun read that you might like. Kylie Logan's Mayhem at the Orient Express features three women who are forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group since these three ladies keep disturbing the peace with their squabbling.
The initial book choice is Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, and that sets their mouths to watering. The Orient Express is the island’s newest Chinese restaurant. They might not agree about much, but the ladies all love the orange chicken on the menu. But their meal is spoiled when the restaurant’s owner, Peter Chan, has the bad fortune of getting murdered. Now, with Christie as their inspiration, the League of Literary Ladies has a real mystery to solve…if they can somehow catch a killer without killing each other first.

[Fresno Bob]

pretty much anything by Joe Ambercrombie (Best Served Cold, the First Law trilogy) falls into this genre, as does Ian Tregillis "Milkweed Triptich"

[Rachel]

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner has the main character reluctantly helping out her former best friend when she gets in trouble.

[Isabel (kittiwake)]

The Novella Enemy Mine which is also available in the collection Manifest Destiny. Two enemy combatants, one human the other alien, are marrooned on a planet after a space battle, and have to co-operate in order to survive long enough to be rescured.

[CE]

So Over You The enemies have to work on an extended article for their school paper together.

[Karen]

I like this trope for some of my romances:

Checkmate
The Game
Chain Reaction
The DUFF
Perfect Strangers
Boy v Girl