BBC BOOKS (RANDOM HOUSE) is publishing the official version of Douglas Adams' iconic four-parter, DOCTOR WHO - CITY OF DEATH (based upon a storyline outline by David Fisher) on 14 May 2014.
Following his excellent novelisation of Adams' SHADA, Gareth Roberts has been entrusted to write this tale of a time-shattered alien, Scaroth, attempting to re-assemble himself, and, like the NEW SERIES alien, the Silence, has been covertly manipulating humanity to develop sufficient technology (by 1979) to create a "time machine".
The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris - a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks - not in their wine glasses but in the very fabric of time itself.
Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme which encompasses home-made time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth.
Aided by British private detective Duggan, whose speciality is thumping people, the Doctor and Romana must thwart the machinations of the suave, mysterious Count Scarlioni - all twelve of him - if the human race has any chance of survival.
But then, the Doctor's holidays tend to turn out a bit like this.
RRP £16.99 Hardback.
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