Mission: Impractical (novel)
Publisher's Summary
When daring criminal Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilisations...
Pursued by bounty hunters, the Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber - notorious rogues who have become involved in something big: a covert government agency on Vandor Prime is forcing the pair to turn their criminal talents to its own ends.
The Doctor and Frobisher are soon drawn into the mysterious scheme themselves - but what game is truly being played by the authorities? How is the group of Ogron raiders involved? And who is so desperate to see the Doctor dead?
Caught in a web of deceit and pursued by ruthless killers, the Doctor's mission - should he decide to accept it - is to join Glitz's gang and pull off the crime of the century. And failure will result in an interstellar war costing the lives of millions...
Characters
References
- The Doctor hasn't met Mel yet.
- Sha'Ol is a Tzun, while Kartakh is a Veltrochini, which makes their alliance a starnge one. By this point, the Tzun Confederacy has been destroyed, but their technology is important to the plot of the story. The technology is, by this point, in Veltrochini hands.
Notes
The first DW novel to take place between two issues of Doctor Who Magazine rather than two television serials.
Continuity
- Frobisher last appeared in DWM: Where Nobody Knows Your Name, and also appears in audio in BFA: The Holy Terror and The Maltese Penguin.
- Dibber is killed, which explains his disappearence by DW: Dragonfire, and why the Doctor does not ask after him.
Timeline
- According to McIntee's author notes within this novel this takes place between DWM: War-Game and Funhouse.
- This however is problematic, both War-Game and Funhouse do not have Peri in them, however later stories (which follow them) do and are set before Trial of a Time Lord, whilst this story is set after it.
- Mission: Impractical occurs after: DW: The Trial of a Time Lord
- Glitz recalls meeting Mel, the Master and being in the courtroom.
- Mission: Impractical occurs before: BFA: The Holy Terror
