Interference - Book One (novel)

Publisher's Summary
''Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that her entire life had been stage-managed by a time-travelling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it?''

Now Sam’s back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge, and good old-fashioned depravity. But she’s about to learn the first great truth of the universe: that however corrupt and amoral your own race might be, there’s always someone in the galaxy who can make you look like a beginner.

Ms Jones has just become a minor player in a million-year-old power struggle... and as it happens, so has the Doctor.

Both of him, actually.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Third Doctor
 * Samantha Jones
 * Fitz Kriener
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * K-9
 * Guest
 * Compassion
 * Was someone called Laura Tobin
 * Mother Martha
 * Magdalena
 * I.M. Foreman (Gallifreyan)

Continuity

 * Alien Bodies was the first appearance of the Faction Paradox.
 * Sam was put through the emotional and temporal wringer in Unnatural History.
 * At the end of Autumn Mist Sam told the Doctor she wanted to go home.
 * The novel / story is continued in Interference: Book Two (The Hour of the Geek).
 * The Blue Angel is the next novel and the first novel to show Compassion as a genuine companion.
 * The Taking of Planet 5 and The Shadows of Avalon illustrate Compassion's development into a TARDIS.
 * The Ancestor Cell brings all that happens in this novel (and those in between) to a conclusion.
 * Lewis mentions the events of DW: The Tenth Planet, saying he remembers all the fuss from the 1980s and the worry over the new Z-bomb that could destroy the Earth.