The Showstoppers (novel)

 was the sixth novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart series, released by Candy Jar Books in 2016.

Publisher's summary

 * ‘Nuzzink in ze vorld can schtop me now!’

There’s a new TV show about to hit the airwaves, but Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart won’t be tuning in. With the future of the Fifth Operational Corps in doubt he’s got enough to worry about, but a plea from an old friend soon finds Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers embroiled in a plot far more fantastical than anything on the small screen.

Can charismatic star Aubrey Mondegreene really be in two places at the same time? What lengths will ailing entertainment mogul Billy Lovac go to in order to reach his audience? And is luckless journalist Harold Chorley really so desperate that he’ll buy into a story about Nazi conspiracies from a tramp wearing a tin foil hat?

There’s something very rotten at the heart of weekend television, and it isn’t all due to shoddy scripts and bad special effects.

Plot
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Characters

 * Colonel/Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Anne Travers
 * Lance Corporal William Bishop
 * Lieutenant Colonel Walter Douglas
 * Private Gwynfor Evans
 * Lance Corporal Sally Wright
 * Major General Oliver Hamilton
 * Harold Chorley
 * Samson Ware

Errors

 * Travers and Lethbridge-Stewart know about the use of Nazi scientists but are unfamiliar with Paperclip. In real life, Paperclip had been partly exposed in late 1946.

Continuity

 * At the end of the story, Lethbridge-Stewart learns he's being promoted to brigadier so he can run HAVOC.
 * Travers refers to Quark remains from Mutually Assured Domination.
 * HAVOC still haven't completed their move to Dolerite Base.
 * Bill Filer is mentioned as a US intelligence contact.
 * Lethbridge-Stewart briefly thinks a "blowhard like Scobie" is going to be put in charge of HAVOC.
 * The bunker doors have been constructed from dwarf star alloy the CIA has, as established in TV: Day of the Moon.