Warlock (novel)

Warlock
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace, Benny
Main enemy:	Warlock IDEA
Main setting:	London, Canterbury, Kent and New York City, 2014
Key crew
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Writer:	Andrew Cartmel
Cover by:	Tony Masero
Release details
Release number:	34
Release date:	19 January 1995
Format:	Paperback Book; 35 Chapters, 359 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20433-6
Virgin New Adventures
← Previous	Parasite
Next →	Set Piece
War trilogy
← Previous	Cat's Cradle: Warhead
Next →	Warchild

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Warlock was the thirty-fourth New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. It was the second in a trilogy of linked novels; Cat's Cradle: Warhead was the first (published in 1992) and the third novel was Warchild (published in 1996).

Publisher's summary

It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.

There's a strange new drug on the street. It's called warlock and some people say it's the creation of the Devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.

Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.

This disturbing sequel to Warhead moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.

Plot

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Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace
• Bernice Summerfield
• Creed McIlveen
• Justine Wheaton
• Paulie Keaton
• Vincent Wheaton
• Mrs Woodcott
• Jack
• Shell
• Hank Harrigan
• Ludmilla Serebrennikov
• Christine Bowman
• Raymond Bowman
• Eddie Chavez
• Artie
• Webster
• Russell
• Larner
• Chick
• Dieter
• Tommy Hunnicutt
• Pamela Hunnicutt
• Sean
• Sheba

Worldbuilding

Drugs and medicines

• Warlock smells like liquorice.

Earth locations

• The Doctor finds New York City exhausting.
• The Doctor's house has a computer with a voice interface that can sound like Cary Grant. The front gate says, "Beware of the God". It also houses several cars, including a Mazda and a Mercedes.
• Canterbury Cathedral is accidentally destroyed by Vincent.

Organisations

• IDEA is the International Drug Enforcement Agency.

Periodicals

• The Doctor buys a copy of Serial Killers Weekly.

Food and beverages

• Ace drinks a gin and tonic with Jack. She later takes a coffee with milk and two sugars. She has eaten veal on numerous occasions.
• Bernice drinks cava spiked with Warlock.

Notes

• This is the second novel in Andrew Cartmel's War Trilogy of Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Warlock, and Warchild.
• A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 221.
• At 359 pages, this is the longest of the New Adventures.

Continuity

• The Doctor and Ace previously met Vincent, Justine, Mrs Woodcott and Creed's brother James McIlveen. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead)
• IDEA utilise the King Building, previously used by the Butler Institute. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Deceit)
• The Eighth Doctor will later encounter another alien drug-like substance. (PROSE: Revolution Man)
• The trees around the Doctor's house still have scorch marks from when a car blew up a few years earlier. (COMIC: Fellow Travellers)

External links

• Prelude to Warlock as published in DWM#221
• Warlock at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Warlock at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Warlock
• Cartmel Speaks by David Bishop, Felicity Scoones (Interview) - TSV 46