Deceit (novel)

Publisher's Summary
'Take Arcadia apart if you have to.'

The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Dalek war is drawing to an untidy close. Earth’s Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.

Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.

A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.

Nothing is what it seems to be.

Characters
The Doctor

Bernice Summerfield
 * Is haunted by the destruction of the Seven Planets.

Ace
 * She's 3 years older.
 * Is Spacefleet trained in the Special Weapons Division.
 * Thinks about shagging Daak.

Absolm Daak
 * Is a clone (a "not very good one" at that).

Pool (Gestalt)

Continuity

 * Absolm Daak died destroying the Dalek Death Wheel in DWM Nemesis of the Daleks.
 * The TARDIS was infected with protoplasm in Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark