The Face-Eater (novel)

Publisher’s Summary
The Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II, one of the earliest planets colonised in humanity’s first big push into space. But instead of a brave new world, they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest.

The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out. Humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each face being stripped bare.

Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City. It seems that the superstitious whisperings of the colonists may be well founded -- that the sinister Face-Eater from Proximan mythology has awakened from its long sleep, to drive out all those who would defile its world...

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Falls down a hole, breaks his leg.


 * Samantha Jones
 * Gets blown up while breaking into an office, gets third degree burns, but recovers.
 * Then gets into a car, and crashes it, knocking her out and giving her numerous bruises.
 * She's still a little bit paranoid about nanotech being in her body.


 * Helen Percival
 * Colony executive


 * Ben Fuller


 * Joan Betts
 * Is a xenoanthropologist.
 * Gets killed by the Face-Eater


 * Jake Leary


 * The Face-Eater
 * Also known by the native Proximans as F'Seeta.
 * Is a shape shifter

Continuity

 * The events of DW: Warriors of the Deep are mentioned.
 * The Doctor's imprisonment in EDA: Seeing I is mentioned by the shape shifter.
 * There is a flashback sequence to DW: Planet of the Spiders
 * Sam no longer has the nanotech in her body she accquired in EDA: Beltempest.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after EDA: Beltempest
 * This story takes place before ST: Femme Fatale