The King of Terror (novel)

Publisher's summary
'''All this useless beauty. All these great leaps forward. And for what? So that the first alien with an advanced degree in interplanetary warfare can take it all from you?'''

As the millennium draws to a close, the future of humankind hinges on the activities of one multimedia company, InterCom. Suspecting that old mistakes are being repeated, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and his companions to investigate the company's Los Angeles headquarters. But their infiltration is disurpted by the murderous games of terrorists seeking the fulfillment of age-old prophecies.

While the Doctor and UNIT encounter aliens in the boardroom, Tegan meets a pop star, Turlough finds himelf a victim of his own desires and Los Angeles becomes a war zone in which humanity is merely a helpless bystander.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Grew up in Caloundra, seventy miles from Brisbane.


 * Turlough
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * By 1999 has met ten Doctors, although he's secretive about which ones and in which order.
 * Confronts 'Control' (his American opposite number) and considers him disreputable.
 * Trusts the Doctor implicitly but still ignores his prohibitions about guns.
 * Johnny Chess
 * Is the son of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.
 * Knows/Slept with a future version of Tegan (because she doesn't recognise him).

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * The King of Terror occurs after: DW: The Awakening


 * The Doctor mentions trying to get a 'chap from 1693' back home for months, placing this story after The Awakening.


 * The King of Terror occurs before: DW: Frontios