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Players (novel)

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Players
Series: Doctor Who -
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
Release Number: 21
Doctor: Sixth Doctor
Second Doctor
Companions: Peri Brown
Enemy: The Players (Countess Malika Treszka / Andrea Razetki, Count Ludwig Kroner / Ludwig Praetorius)
Wallis Simpson
King Edward VIII
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Setting: South Africa, 1899
France, 1915
England, 1936
Author: Terrance Dicks
Publisher: BBC Books
Publication: April 1999
Format: Paperback Book, 251 Pages
ISBN: ISBN 0-563-55573-4
Previous Story: Deep Blue
Following Story: Millennium Shock


Contents

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Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place...

The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things - a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career...

Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop. And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players - mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them - before it's too late?

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