Blood Heat (novel)

Publisher's Summary
Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.

The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.

An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.

Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. And they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...

Characters
The Doctor, Bernice Summerfield, Ace, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (alternate version), Liz Shaw (alternate version), Benton (alternate version), Manisha (alternate version)

Continuity

 * Blood Heat marks the beginning of the pentalogy of New Adventure novels loosely known as the Alternative Universe Arc. This comprises this novel, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future and the Doctor Who Magazine comic Deadly Genesis.


 * Blood Heat references Doctor Who and the Silurians as its starting point for the divergent timeline. Deadly Genesis also branches off from the events seen in that story.