Bullet Time (novel)

Publisher's summary
'You're not the Doctor I knew.'

'Perhaps you never knew the Doctor.'

Hong Kong 1997: the handover to Chinese rule is imminent, and investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith is on the trail of corruption in the Far East.

Street gangsters lurk round every corner. And when one decides to confide in Sarah, she is thrown headlong into danger. What are UNIT doing in Hong Kong, and why are they following missing backpackers? What is causing a spate of strange and unnatural deaths? And how is Sarah’s old and trusted friend the Doctor involved? More importantly, whose side is he on?

The truth can now be told, and the outcome of Sarah’s investigations revealed. But will her world ever be the same again?

Characters

 * The Seventh Doctor
 * Has been drug dealing with aliens.
 * Is just below the head of the Chinese mafia.


 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * It is implied that she may have died at the end of this novel. This is later revealed not be the case. (DW: School Reunion, SJA: Invasion of the Bane et al)

Continuity

 * Iris Wildthyme is mentioned as one of UNIT's scientific advisers, although she is currently on vacation. (EDA: The Scarlet Empress)
 * In an alternative timeline in which the Doctor's exile on Earth did not begin until 1997, an alternative version of the Third Doctor also visited Hong Kong at the time of the Handover of the island to Chinese rule where he was reunited with both Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the Master. (DWU: Sympathy for the Devil)

For the Seventh Doctor

 * Bullet Time occurs after: BFA: The Sirens of Time
 * Bullet Time occurs before: EDA: The Eight Doctors

For Sarah Jane Smith

 * Bullet Time occurs after: EDA: Interference - Book Two
 * Bullet Time occurs before: DW: School Reunion and BFA: Sarah Jane Smith (audio series)