Illegal Alien (novel)

Illegal Alien was the fifth BBC Past Doctor Adventures. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and the Cybermen. It is notable for having begun its life as a television story (that would have been part of Season 27 of Sylvester McCoy's era of Doctor Who ).

Publisher's summary
''Britain is at war. Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London. A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets. But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere...''

Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open - and glimpses something emerging from within. But the military dismiss his account of events - the sphere is simply a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be?

Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace are the only people to believe McBride. The sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology - and whatever was inside it is now loose in London.

Before long, they have embarked on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi operatives - and some very old enemies...

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Ace
 * Cody McBride
 * George Limb
 * The Cybermen
 * Major Lazonby
 * Mullen
 * Hartmann

Continuity

 * As part of the epilogue, a hidden chamber full of dormant Cybermen is found beneath the streets of London waiting for a call that would be eventually activated in (TV: The Invasion).