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publisher= [[BBC Books]] | | publisher= [[BBC Books]] | | ||
release date= [[April]] [[1999]] | | release date= [[April]] [[1999]] | | ||
format= Paperback Book, | format= Paperback Book, 251 Pages | | ||
isbn= ISBN 0-563-55573-4}} | isbn= ISBN 0-563-55573-4}} | ||
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Written by Terrance Dicks, "Players" is the twentyfirst installment in the series of BBC Doctor Who paperback novels. A Past Doctor Adventure, it features the Sixth Doctor and Peri.
Publisher's Summary
Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place...
The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things - a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career...
Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop. And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players - mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them - before it's too late?
References
Swamp Thing, Cybermen, Punishment Zone, Metebelis Three
Character References
Characters
The Doctor, Peri Brown, The Second Doctor