The Domino Effect (novel)

The Domino Effect was the sixty-second release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by David Bishop. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher’s Summary
''The TARDIS lands in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, during Easter 2003. The city is almost at a standstill, its public services close to collapse and its people terrorised by a bombing campaign.''

Within hours one of the Doctor’s friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains.

Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity’s development — but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind?

The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes...

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Gets beaten again and again during a police interrogation.
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Anji falls victim to extreme racism in the alternate Earth's British Empire.
 * Sabbath
 * The Oracle
 * Alf
 * Bill
 * Charles Babbage
 * Daniel Merrell
 * Dee
 * Edward Knox
 * Francis Clooney
 * Frank
 * Hamilton
 * Hannah Baxter
 * Helmut Schreyer
 * Herman Hollerith
 * John Herschel
 * Joshua Sutton
 * Konrad Zuse
 * MacLeod
 * Mitch
 * Neil Judd
 * Rameau
 * William Hastings
 * William Kempton

Continuity

 * Alan Turing makes an appearance in this novel. He was last seen in EDA: The Turing Test. However this version of Alan Turing is part of a parallel universe where he survived to live to ninety-one in 2003 instead of committing suicide in 1954.


 * The events of EDA: Hope are mentioned.
 * Anji mentions the Absolute of the System. (EDA: History 101)

Timeline

 * The Domino Effect takes place after EDA: The Infinity Race.
 * The Domino Effect takes place before EDA: Reckless Engineering.