The Sontaran Games (novel)

The Sontaran Games is a novella written by Jacqueline Rayner. It was the fourth release in BBC Books Quick Reads initiative, a series of shorter novels aimed at promoting literacy.

Publisher's summary
Every time the lights go out, someone dies...

The TARDIS lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the forthcoming Globe Games. But is one of them driven enough to resort to murder? The Tenth Doctor discovers that the students have been hushing up unexplained deaths.

Teaming up with a young swimmer called Emma, the Doctor begins to investigate – but he doesn’t expect to find a squad of Sontarans invading the academy!

As the Sontarans begin their own lethal version of the Globe Games, the Doctor and Emma must find out what’s really going on. But the Doctor is captured and forced to take part in the Sontaran Games. Can even a Time Lord survive this deadly contest?

Plot
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Characters

 * The Tenth Doctor
 * Emma
 * Sid
 * Karl
 * Holly
 * Jimmy
 * Jess
 * Sontar Sand Shrews
 * Major Stenx
 * Captain Skeed
 * Lieutenant Slorr
 * Lieutenant Skezz

Continuity

 * The Sontarans first appeared in the revived series in TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, and the Doctor makes a subtle reference to those events. They would later appear again in-print in PROSE: The Taking of Chelsea 426.
 * A Rutan makes an appearance. They were first seen in TV: Horror of Fang Rock and would also feature alongside the Sontarans again in-print in The Taking of Chelsea 426. They would later have be seen in VG:The Gunpowder Plot.
 * The Doctor opens the TARDIS by clicking his fingers. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
 * Major Stenx, who is seen on the cover of the book, identified so as he is the only Sontaran to take off his helmet, greatly resembles General Staal (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky) and Stark (TV: The Pandorica Opens), suggesting they may have been cloned from the same genetic source. (Although no credited, the actor shown is Dan Starkey, who later would also play Doctor's Sontaran ally, Strax.)
 * A group of Sontarans also go looking for a single hiding Rutan in HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans.