Shakedown (novelisation)

Shakedown
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Benny, Roz, Chris
Main enemy:	Sontarans, Rutans
Main setting:	Megerra, 2376 Sentarion, 2376 Space Station Alpha, 2376 Tiger Moth, 2376
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Terrance Dicks
Release details
Release number:	45
Release date:	December 1995
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 042620459X

Publisher's Summary

'The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.'

For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.

The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Chris and Roz and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfield's researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.

Characters

The Doctor

• Has grey eyes.
• Holds a Master of Arts with the University of Antares.

Bernice Summerfield

• Spends much of her time on the planet Sentarion doing research for the Doctor.

Roz Forrester

• Poses as a Pink.

Chris Cwej

• Poses as a Pink.

Lisa Derrane

Garshak (the super intelligent Ogron)

References

• The Great Mother is the repository of the Rutan gestalt intelligence.

• The Pinkerton Agency (aka 'The Pinks), also known as The Eye That Never Sleeps is an infamous spy organisation that flourished as far back as the 19th century.

• The Sontaran Military Code requires the death penalty for every infraction.

• The Time Lords seem to support the Rutans in their war with the Sontarans.

Notes

• The middle section of this novel novelises the Reelime Pictures video production Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans, and includes photographs from that production. The novel version also intentionally ties into Lords of the Storm, published in that same month.

• The novel as a whole provides what is basically a 3 part adventure; before, during and after Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans.

Continuity

• Chris returns to Mega City in Mean Streets.

• The Doctor is forgiven by the Rutans for killing one of them on Fang Rock. Horror of Fang Rock

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Shakedown
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Shakedown