The Analysis Bureau (novel)

 was a spin-off novel of Lethbridge-Stewart, released by Candy Jar Books in August 2022.

Publisher's summary
The Analysis Bureau does not exist. Ask any questions about it, and the same answers always greet you. There's no trace of any department matching that name in any branch of Government, only speculation and wild rumours.

At the beginning of the 1960s, some conspiracy theorists even started to claim that there was a village, once the home to an entire community, abandoned during the Second World War due to flooding. They said it’s where experiments and tests are being carried out. Some even claim that the Analysis Bureau used the village as a base of operations, and that there were underground bunkers built way beneath the rural façade of cottages, shops and even a village green.

Of course, those who got anywhere near the truth disappeared just as quickly as the people who asked too many questions, because they were the ones who refused to believe that there was no such thing as the Analysis Bureau.

Plot
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Characters

 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Professor Travers
 * Tobias Vaughn
 * Packer
 * Mr Quebec
 * Professor Amelia Stone (aka Flower)
 * Corporal Thomas Banks
 * The Minister
 * Tosher
 * Grubber
 * Staff Sergeant Powell
 * Station Master Edgar Rumble
 * Sir John Wilder
 * Professor Watkins
 * Ronnie

Continuity

 * The empty village and Mr Quebec had previously appeared in Tom Dexter's PROSE: The Cult of the Grinning Man, working for the army. That story was set in May 1969.
 * Grubber's Moles retrieved technology from the Shoreditch Incident (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and the Post Office Tower. (TV: The War Machines)
 * The third story shows the abduction of Professor Watkins by Vaughn. (TV: The Invasion)
 * Vaughn is trying to build a group of satellites that will broadcast a message into space. (TV: The Invasion)
 * In the alternate timeline, World War II was fought by Neville Chamberlain (with Winston Churchill unknown by Travers) against Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union, while Hitler was shot the day the war started. The British Rocket Group later made a publicly successful rocket launch in 1952, making Travers and Quebec famous. An excavated dinosaur skeleton at Christmas 1960 caused a "near riot". In the late Sixties, a fascist group called the Esteem Party looked set to take over the country with internment camps for IQs under 110 and class segregation, before an unnamed figure replaced each Esteem MP with his own men, then sent a militia to burn down Parliament.