Oentar the Alcoholic Alien

Why a drunken alien?  Oentar's story is one of redemption.  The (Battle for Freehold) series starts out showing the dark side of the alien.  The use of alcohol has made him rude, obnoxious, dangerous, and easy to manipulate.  He is as the phrase goes, "A bull in a china shop."  I wanted to have a character that humans are apprehensive and sometimes afraid of, so Oentar is a reptile.  Humans in the book see him naturally as an enemy and something to be despised.  His Praetorian home world is conquering everything in its path and making slaves of everyone.  The main hero in the story sees Oentar as a danger to humans and traitor to his own kind.   Oentar changes over time as he is forced not to drink.  He slowly becomes accepted and a help to the humans.  John Wolfe is one of the main characters of the book.  This book is not only a redemption story for Oentar, but it is one for Wolfe as the alien and his relationship grows.  John and Oentar are much in the same, identical.  It is the perception of those around them that makes one the hero and the other the enemy for a time.

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