The Face of the Enemy (novel)

 is the first BBC Books-published full length novel not to feature the Doctor as the main character in the novel. It features primarily the Master in the 'main character' 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

 * The Master
 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Mike Yates
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Barbara Wright Chesterton
 * Koschei

Individuals

 * Ian and Barbara's son John is in primary school.
 * Ian and Barbara eloped on their 1 year anniversary of returning to Earth.
 * Both 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 30s.
 * 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

 * Following his arrest in Devil's End, the Master is held in Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre.
 * The Master is prepared to work with UNIT as long as it benefits him.
 * He takes action against the government of the Republic of Great Britain because of how they treated his parallel self.

Parallel Earth (Inferno) individuals

 * Koschei still works for the Celestial Intervention Agency with Ailla.

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 in the alternate timeline that the British Republic 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 hides his TARDIS in Devils End. He is depicted recovering it in EDA: The Eight Doctors.

Timeline

 * The Face of the Enemy's events are concurrent with DW: The Curse of Peladon
 * The Face of the Enemy occurs after: DW: The Dæmons
 * As the Master is still in custody following his arrest in Devil's End.


 * The Face of the Enemy occurs before DW: The Sea Devils
 * As the Master has not been transferred to his new prison on Fortress Island.