Shakedown (novelisation)


 * For the independent video production upon which this novel was based, see Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans.

Publisher's summary
The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.

For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.

The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Chris and  Roz and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfield's researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Has grey eyes.
 * Holds a Master of Arts with the University of Antares.
 * Is known as "The Infamous General Smith" by the Sontarans because of his actions in the first third of the story.


 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Spends much of her time on the planet Sentarion doing research for the Doctor.
 * Has begun to evidence the Doctor's habit of getting into so much trouble that people can't kill them (she can't be killed in the sacred precinct. Nor can she leave the sacred precinct. It's the law).


 * Roz Forrester
 * Poses as a Pink.


 * Chris Cwej
 * Poses as a Pink.


 * Lisa Derrane


 * Garshak
 * A super intelligent Ogron
 * Got his job because one of the other candidates mysteriously had both their arms ripped off. It was some sort of accident...


 * Steg

Continuity

 * Chris returns to Mega City in BNA: Mean Streets.


 * The Doctor is forgiven by the Rutans for killing one of them on Fang Rock. (DW: Horror of Fang Rock)

Timeline

 * This story takes place after NA: The Also People
 * This story takes place before NA: Just War