Camera Obscura (novel)

Publisher’s Summary
''The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of his remaining heart. He had never got used to it. He never would. The single sound where a double should be. What was this new code hammering through his body? What did it mean? Mortal. No, he’d always known he could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled. Through his shirt, his fingers sought the thick ridge of his scar. Human...''

The Doctor’s second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.

Characters
The Doctor
 * Nearly dies when a sandbag is dropped (from great height) onto his chest, crushing his remaining heart and smashing his ribs so hard they poke out his back onto the floor.


 * The Doctor tricks the Angel-Maker into stabbing him through the heart (in order to venture into Death’s realm).

Fitz Kreiner

Anji Kapoor

Sabbath (alias Mr G.K. Thursday)

Angel-Maker (aka Elizabeth Kelly)
 * She’s a time sensitive.

Death

Nathaniel Chilteren

Continuity

 * The Doctor speaks of Sabbath’s previous ploys including Station One Anachrophobia and Barcelona History 101.


 * When the Doctor is crushed by the sandbags it is his connection to Sabbath, through his second heart that was removed in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street that Sabbath implanted in his own body that keeps him from dying.


 * Fitz goes to a history lecture on Siberia and meets explorer George Williamson, the expedition appears in Time Zero.