Demontage (novel)

Demontage was the twentieth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Justin Richards. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Samantha Jones and Fitz Kreiner.

Publisher's summary
The Vega Station — a haven for gamblers, art lovers and duty-free shoppers, the one place where the Battrulians and their erstwhile enemies, the Canvine, meet and mix, in neutral space. A pressure point, an explosive mixture. And just as the new President of Battrul is about to arrive, the TARDIS crew turn up.

Fitz is in trouble. He's accidentally got himself hired as an assassin while trying to emulate James Bond. And he’s upset Bigdog Caruso, the unofficial Canvine leader on Vega.

Sam is in trouble. She’s become involved with the key witness to a murder, and the witness has vanished.

The Doctor, meanwhile, has been roped in to help with investigations into robbery, sabotage and the murder, as well as to sort out Fitz's problems, Sam's problems and the President's safety. He’s in his element.

And if they should get bored, there’s a hitman on the loose, monsters roaming the station corridors, an exhibition of art by a painter who depicted his own death, and the opera.

Chapter Titles

 * 1) Background
 * 2) Transparent Intentions
 * 3) Contractual Obligation
 * 4) Pictures at an Exhibition
 * 5) Out of the Darkness
 * 6) Details
 * 7) Art Theft
 * 8) Target Identified
 * 9) Behind the Scenes at the Gallery
 * 10) Visits and Visitors
 * 11) Still Life
 * 12) Façades
 * 13) Taking a Gamble
 * 14) Out of the Frame
 * 15) Art Reception
 * 16) Murdering Art
 * 17) Closure

Plot
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Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Samantha Jones
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Newark Rappare
 * Ambrose Forester
 * Vermilion Kenyan
 * President Robyn Drexler
 * Harris Stabilo
 * Hazard Solarin
 * Toulour Martinique
 * Tullus Gath
 * Henri Blanc
 * Bigdog Caruso
 * Browning Phillips
 * Cage
 * Macleb

The Doctor's items

 * The Doctor mentions his everlasting matches.

Individuals

 * Sam is painted into a picture, but is able to use the equipment within the painting to escape.
 * Fitz tries to act like James Bond, but no one cares or indeed recognises that he's pretending. Most just think he's weird.
 * Fitz gets mistaken for the assassin who was hired to kill the Doctor.
 * Newark Rappare departs intending to teach.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor drinks ginger beer with Sam.
 * Fitz drinks several Martinis "shaken not stirred".
 * Beer and crisps are eaten predominantly by the Canvines.
 * Sam doesn't drink alcohol.

Politicians

 * President Robyn Drexler is president of Battrul.

Spacecraft

 * The Doctor visited Vega Station fifty years ago in his fourth incarnation.

Species

 * Canvines are large upright wolves who went to war more than fifty years ago with Battrul.

Transport technology

 * Toulour Martinique's painting technique is similar to matter transmission.

Continuity

 * Vega Station appears in PROSE: Tears of the Oracle, where Irving Braxiatel wins KS-159 in a game of cards, much like James Bond wins his Aston Martin. Fitz imitates Bond in much of this story.
 * Newark Reppare also appears in PROSE: Dragons' Wrath.