Elvis the King Spaceport has grown into the sprawling city-state of New Memphis - an urban jungle, where organized crime is rife. But the launch of the new Terminal 13 hasn't been as smooth as expected. And things are about to get worse! When the Doctor arrives, he finds the whole terminal locked down! The notorious Invisible Assassin is at work again, and the Judoon troopers sent to catch him will stop at nothing to complete their mission. With the assassin loose on the mean streets of New Memphis, the Doctor is forced into a strange alliance. Together with teenage private-eye Nikki and a ruthless Judoon Commander, the Doctor soon discovers that things are even more complicated - and dangerous - than he first thought!
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The Doctor and the Judoon hunt an invisible assassin in this gritty sci-fi adventure from the bestselling Doctor Who novels
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Colin Brake has worked as a writer and script editor in the television business for twenty years. He has worked on shows as diverse as EastEnders, Trainer and Bugs and written scripts for many programmes including over thirty episodes of the BBC daytime soap Doctors.
He lives in Leicester with his wife Kerry, their two children Cefn and Kassia and two Cornish Rex.
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By Mr. M. Jones
Format:Hardcover
This is a step outside the normal format for this series. The doctor drops into a seedy future city built around a spaceport and plays detective with a tough Judoon and a young female private eye, within a battle between two rival crime bosses. I guessed some of the twists before they were revealed but it was still great to see not just a different setting but a different type of story, and still an effective Doctor Who story.
Format:Hardcover
An original Doctor Who novel, telling an all new story not done before in any other medium.
It runs for two hundred and forty seven pages, and is divided into nineteen chapters plus a prologue.
It's suitable for readers of all ages.
It features the Tenth Doctor, travelling on his own with no companion. And his dialogue is well written and you can imagine David Tennant saying the lines quite easily.
It is a somewhat restrained and moody version of the Doctor, though, the narrative allowing no chance for any humour or witticisms.
The story sees him visiting a spaceport which is supposed to be a fantastic new operation, but which is running into a lot of teething troubles [obvious parallels with the latest terminal at Heathrow, which was going through similar when this came out]. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the middle of a mob war.
Also in town are ruthless alien law enforcers the Judoon. On the track of an assassin.
And a young private detective is trying to find her missing father.
Many diverse people's lives are about to cross, and some will never be the same again as a result...
This one does hit the ground running, and manage to slightly confound some expectations the prologue may give you. There's a rich cast of characters who are well written, and the plot does allow for them to all grow and change very nicely over the course of the story.
About midway through you might start to wonder where it's going but things do turn out to be very well worked out, with some decent surprises in the final third.
The Doctor may not have as much to do as some might like, because the other supporting characters have a great share of the action as well, but that's the only minor complaint about a book that's a good read and an above average entry in this range.
It runs for two hundred and forty seven pages, and is divided into nineteen chapters plus a prologue.
It's suitable for readers of all ages.
It features the Tenth Doctor, travelling on his own with no companion. And his dialogue is well written and you can imagine David Tennant saying the lines quite easily.
It is a somewhat restrained and moody version of the Doctor, though, the narrative allowing no chance for any humour or witticisms.
The story sees him visiting a spaceport which is supposed to be a fantastic new operation, but which is running into a lot of teething troubles [obvious parallels with the latest terminal at Heathrow, which was going through similar when this came out]. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the middle of a mob war.
Also in town are ruthless alien law enforcers the Judoon. On the track of an assassin.
And a young private detective is trying to find her missing father.
Many diverse people's lives are about to cross, and some will never be the same again as a result...
This one does hit the ground running, and manage to slightly confound some expectations the prologue may give you. There's a rich cast of characters who are well written, and the plot does allow for them to all grow and change very nicely over the course of the story.
About midway through you might start to wonder where it's going but things do turn out to be very well worked out, with some decent surprises in the final third.
The Doctor may not have as much to do as some might like, because the other supporting characters have a great share of the action as well, but that's the only minor complaint about a book that's a good read and an above average entry in this range.
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This Tenth Doctor adventure has undertones, to me, of Bladerunner, Indiana Jones and Austin Powers - dark cities, evil gangsters named Uncle, albino bad guys, running around corridoors, pickpockets - it's all go in New Memphis, that's for sure. I had figured out where Nikki's father was, and who The Widow was long before, apparently, anyone else in New Memphis did. This story really just comes across as a slightly schlocky gangster and detective story that happens to have the Doctor involved in it - it really is not a "Doctor Who" story at all. Vaguely disappointing. Just makes 3 stars from me.
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Justice is served!
As part of the trilogy of Doctor Who novels featuring the Slitheen, the Judoon and the Daleks, this book easily comes second to Prisoner of the Daleks. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by Bryan
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Fantastic!
One of the best i have read upto now, really gets going straight away, and with one of my fav villians, The Judoon. Great humour too. If i could give 10 stars, i would.
Published on 27 Aug 2009 by Torvil Wheels
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Flo-mo-go-ro-zo-ho-no etc.
The Doctor and the Judoon hunt an invisible assassin in Colin Brake's latest original Doctor Who novels from BBC Books. Read more
Published on 12 May 2009 by Captain Pugwash
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