Casualties of War (novel)



Casualties of War was the thirty-eighth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Steve Emmerson.

Publisher’s Summary
1918. The world is at war. A terrible raging conflict that has left no one untouched.

In the North Yorkshire village of Hawkswick, it seems that the dead won’t stay down. There are reports of horrifically wounded soldiers on manoeuvres in the night. Pets have gone missing, and now livestock is found slaughtered in the fields.

Suspicion naturally falls on nearby Hawkswick Hall, a psychiatric hospital for shell-shocked soldiers, where Private Daniel Corey senses a gathering evil.

As events escalate, a stranger arrives on the scene. Can this Man from the Ministry solve the mystery of Hawkswick? And can Hawkswick solve the mystery that is this Man from the Ministry?

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Mary Minett
 * Dr. Banham
 * Albert Briggs
 * Bill Cromby
 * Charlie Skaggs
 * Daniel Corey
 * Davies
 * Iris Cromby
 * John Sykes

Continuity

 * The Doctor's note from Fitz Kreiner is still in his pocket. (PROSE: The Burning)
 * The Doctor recalls his previous meetings with William Shakespeare. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass, TV: Planet of Evil, TV: City of Death, AUDIO: The Kingmaker, AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks) He would later do so again in COMIC: A Groatsworth of Wit and TV: The Shakespeare Code.