The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)

The Knight, The Fool and The Dead was the first of two novels released as part of the Time Lord Victorious series. It was written by Steve Cole and featured the Tenth Doctor and Brian the Ood.

Publisher's summary
We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe.

The Doctor travels back to the Ancient Days, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known…

Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death.

The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that Life wins from the start.

Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious.

Plot
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Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Brian the Ood
 * Estinee
 * Eighth Doctor
 * Ninth Doctor
 * High Ambassador Verv-Hoondai Chalskal
 * Professor Hana Fallomax
 * Rose Tyler
 * First Doctor
 * Barbara Wright
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Susan Foreman

Continuity

 * The Doctor recalls visiting Mars, Adelaide Brooke's death and seeing Ood Sigma on Davies Street. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
 * The Dark Times followed on from the sudden appearance of innumerable forms of life. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times)
 * The Doctor remembers meeting "remnants" of a "fair few" of the Old Ones. (TV: Death to the Daleks, City of Death, Enlightenment, The Runaway Bride)