The King of Terror (novel)

Publisher's summary
''All this useless beauty. All these great leaps forward. And for what? So that the first alien with an advanced degree in interplanetary warfare can take it all from you?''

As the millennium draws to a close, the future of humankind hinges on the activities of one multimedia company, InterCom. Suspecting that old mistakes are being repeated, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and his companions to investigate the company's Los Angeles headquarters. But their infiltration is disurpted by the murderous games of terrorists seeking the fulfilment of age-old prophecies.

While the Doctor and UNIT encounter aliens in the boardroom, Tegan meets a pop star, Turlough finds himelf a victim of his own desires and Los Angeles becomes a war zone in which humanity is merely a helpless bystander.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Grew up in Caloundra, seventy miles from Brisbane.


 * Turlough
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * By 1999 has met ten Doctors, although he's secretive about which ones and in which order.
 * Confronts 'Control' (his American opposite number) and considers him disreputable.
 * Trusts the Doctor implicitly but still ignores his prohibitions about guns.
 * Johnny Chess
 * Is the son of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.
 * Knows/Slept with a future version of Tegan (because she doesn't recognise him).

Continuity

 * There are references to the Cybermen invasion (DW: The Invasion), the Autons (DW: Spearhead from Space, DW: Terror of the Autons), the General Carrington affair (DW: The Ambassadors of Death), the Stahlman's gas project (DW: Inferno), the Waro (PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune), Terminus (DW: Terminus) and the Malus (DW: The Awakening).
 * In the declassified UNIT files which were released in 2050, the Doctor is referred to as "Dr. Smith." There is some speculation that "the Doctor" is a code name used by a number of agents who worked for UNIT. (MA: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * The Doctor mentions that he witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854 (DW: The Evil of the Daleks) and that he was present at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 during his second incarnation (PDA: World Game). Later in his personal timeline, the Sixth Doctor would also be present at the Battle of Waterloo. On that occasion, he encountered Davros and the Daleks (BFA: The Curse of Davros)
 * In the attempt to return Will Chandler to 1643, the TARDIS materialised on a planet of extremely intelligent, war-like walking reptilians, whose king wanted to wanted to execute the Doctor. (DW: The Awakening)

For the Doctor

 * The King of Terror occurs after DW: The Awakening
 * The King of Terror occurs before IDW: The Forgotten (flashback)

For the Brigadier

 * The King of Terror occurs after NA: The Dying Days
 * The King of Terror occurs before PDA: The Shadow in the Glass