Blood Harvest (novel)

 is the twenty-eighth New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace, Bernice Summerfield and Romana II. This novel also features a return of several characters and the planet seen in the 1980 television story State of Decay.

Publisher's summary
Doc's peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. You’re carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll.

Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called ‘Doc’s’, he knows this is one job he can’t refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?

Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar -- and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.

The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctor’s past.

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Ace
 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Romana
 * Al Capone
 * Tom Dekker
 * Agonal
 * Zargo (clone)
 * Camilla (clone)
 * Aukon (clone)
 * Borusa
 * Freed from imprisonment.

The Doctor

 * The Doctor can play the piano.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor brews beer in the TARDIS swimming pool and whiskey in the bath.
 * Bernice has a silver flask with her that has Eridanian Brandy in it.

Individuals

 * Mobsters call Ace the lady in black.
 * Ace sleeps with Dekker.
 * Bernice can sing the blues.
 * Events on the planet of the vampires in E-Space don't faze Tom Dekker, but the Doctor still erases bits of his memory.

Music

 * The music the Fifth Doctor played on the harp on Gallifrey to access the time scoop is called Rassilon's Lament.

Planets

 * Bernice has visited a bar on Metebelis III.

Politics

 * Bernice sets up a government based on the British system on the planet of the vampires.

Technology

 * The Doctor gives Benny a SPATAB (Spatio-Temporal Alarm Beacon), a homing beacon for the TARDIS.

Time Lords

 * Romana talks about the Doctor's companions like they're amusing pets.
 * The Committee of Three use the Time Scoop.
 * The Committee of Three are: Rath (a Prydonian and Goth's younger sibling), Elar (an Arcalian) and Morin (a Patraxean).


 * Borusa is freed from imprisonment.
 * Romana meets Ruathadvorophrenaltid.

Continuity

 * This is a sequel to DW: State of Decay and in some ways to DW: The Five Doctors.
 * Events in this novel lead to MA: Goth Opera, It was intended to help launch the Virgin Missing Adventures line of original novels featuring past Doctors.
 * The Doctor gives back Spandrell's Gallifreyan Army Knife, mentioned in NA: Timewyrm: Exodus.
 * Dekker reappears in PDA: Players, in which he meets the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown in London in December 1936. He obliquely refers to the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Peri suggests that he is speaking of one of his future incarnations but the Doctor dismisses this idea out of hand.
 * In what appears to be a redundancy, Borusa is freed from his prison in this story, but his redemption is later depicted differently in EDA: The Eight Doctors.
 * Ruathadvorophrenaltid makes her first appearance in a brief cameo. She introduces herself as "Ruatha" for short. However in MA: Goth Opera, which includes a retelling of the same scene and the subsequent events, she calls herself "Ruath" instead.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after ST: Cold War
 * This story takes place before NA: Strange England