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RealWorld

The Face of the Enemy is the first full length novel published by BBC books which does not feature the Doctor as the main character. It features primarily the Master in the role, whilst also featuring two previous companions; Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma...

Robbery and murder are on the increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key.

Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth.

As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest enemy...

Characters

References

Individuals

  • Ian and Barbara's son John is in primary school.
  • Ian and Barbara eloped on the first anniversary of their returning to Earth.
  • Ian and Barbara required treatment from their exposure to radiation on Skaro.
  • Ian and Barbara are writing a journal to leave for Susan in 2167.
  • Barbara Wright Chesterton teaches history at a local comprehensive school.
  • Ian Chesterton is in his late thirties.
  • The Brigadier meets Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan for the first time.
  • Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is now divorced from his wife.
  • The Doctor has tutored the Brigadier in how to disable a Time Lord, just in case someone needs to stop the Master again.

The Master

Parallel Earth (Inferno) individuals

Notes

Continuity

  • This ties in with DW: Inferno showing the after-affects of the Inferno project on the alternate Earth which, contrary to the Doctor's assumption in that story, has not disintegrated, but has been devastated beyond recovery.
  • It is briefly mentioned that in the parallel universe, the Republic of Great Britain battled a group of Bannermen in 1959. (DW: Delta and the Bannermen)
  • Ian and Barbara returned to Earth in DW: The Chase.
  • Ian and Barbara's marriage was revealed in MA: Goth Opera.
  • The Master's TARDIS is in the form of a black Rolls-Royce limousine (with darkened windows) for much of the story. It takes the appearance of a thick bulkhead door when it materialises aboard HMS Redoubt. When the Master sends his TARDIS to the cavern of the church at Devil's End, it assumes the form of the Stone of Sacrifice; he is depicted recovering it in EDA: The Eight Doctors.

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