To the Slaughter (novel)

To the Slaughter was the seventy-second release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Stephen Cole. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan.

Publisher’s Summary
The solar system is being spring-cleaned, to improve its feng shui and attract big business back to the long-abandoned seat of Earth’s empire. Celebrity decoratiste Aristotle Halcyon is heading the campaign of controlled demolition. Having swept away the Asteroid Belt and the Oort Cloud, he now plans to make Jupiter more aesthetically pleasing by removing scores of ‘unnecessary’ moons.

But the ancient satellites hold deadly secrets, as the Doctor, Fitz and Trix soon discover. With eco-terrorists planning sabotage, corrupt officials lining their own pockets and sinister forces acting on their own agendas, only the Doctor sees that millions of innocents have been set on the fast track to bloody, unbridled destruction...

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Trix
 * Aristotle Halcyon
 * Arnauld Klimt
 * Cinnamin Tinya
 * Gaws
 * Mildrid
 * Nerren
 * Phaedra
 * Robart Falsh
 * Roddle
 * Salsa Sook
 * Torvin

Continuity

 * When Fitz uses the PadPad, he uses images from EDA: The Fall of Yquatine, Sometime Never... and Parallel 59.
 * Fitz remembers the events of EDA: Interference.

Timeline

 * To the Slaughter takes place after EDA: The Deadstone Memorial.
 * To the Slaughter takes place before EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles.