To the Slaughter (novel)

To the Slaughter was the seventy-second novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Stephen Cole, released 7 February 2005 and 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...

Plot
to be added

Characters

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

Continuity

 * When Fitz uses the PadPad, he uses images from PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine, Sometime Never... and Parallel 59.
 * Fitz remembers the events of PROSE: Interference - Book One and Interference - Book Two.
 * Fitz mentions that he visited Farside Station. (PROSE: Fear Itself)
 * Trix mentions Welwyn Borr, a reference to PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows)
 * The Doctor tells Robart Falsh that he may have been able to resist the effects of Halcytone because he, the Doctor, could not see the colour violet. Either he was joking, or he has been unable to perceive that colour since Griffin removed that ability in