Original Sin (novel)

Publisher's Summary
I'm playing with a fire so dangerous I could scorch eternity.

The last words of a dying alien send the Doctor and Bernice to thirtieth-century Earth in an attempt to avert an unspecified disaster. Before they can even unpack they’ve been arrested by the Adjudicators and sentenced to death by the Imperial army. Their attempts to prove their innocence take them from the mosaic planet Purgatory to a prison inside a star.

Meanwhile, Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej have their own problems. Investigating a series of apparently motiveless murders, they have stumbled upon a conspiracy with sinister overtones. On the run and out of luck, the only people they can turn to are their chief suspects: the Doctor and Bernice.

And as they run, someone is watching them. Someone who knows the Doctor of old...

Main Characters
The Doctor

Bernice Summerfield
 * Hates being called 'Bernie'.

Christopher Rodonante Cwej
 * Chris had a body bepple so that he looked like a teddy bear.

Roslyn 'Sarah' Forrester
 * Once ate someone's ID.

Supporting Characters
Professor Zebulon Pryce

Tobias Vaughn
 * Has kept himself alive since his previous encounter with the Doctor using salvaged Cybermen parts.

Fenn Martle

Continuity

 * Tobias Vaughn has kept himself 'alive' using Mondasian Cyberman technology and also funded the BOSS, Professor Kettlewell and Think Tank's robotics research and also Whittaker's Time Scoop. He scavenged Cyberman bodies from 1985 (DW: Attack of the Cybermen), 1986 (The Tenth Planet) and the post-Cyber-Wars period (DW: Revenge of the Cybermen).


 * The Hith experimental craft uses Icarons to enter hyperspace.


 * This is set a few years following the Wars of Acquisition.