The King of Terror (novel)

All this useless beauty. All these great leaps forward. And for what? So that the first alien with an advanced degree in interplanetary warfare can take it all from you?

As the millennium draws to a close, the future of humankind hinges on the activities of one multimedia company, InterCom. Suspecting that old mistakes are being repeated, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and his companions to investigate the company's Los Angeles headquarters. But their infiltration is disrupted by the murderous games of terrorists seeking the fulfilment of age-old prophecies.

While the Doctor and UNIT encounter aliens in the boardroom, Tegan meets a pop star, Turlough finds himself a victim of his own desires and Los Angeles becomes a war zone in which humanity is merely a helpless bystander.

Chapter Titles

Start!
Prologue: Toy Soldier
Second Prologue: Time as an Abstract

I: All the King's Men

Chapter One: Yesterday's Men
Chapter Two: Safe European Home
Chapter Three: Kill Surf City
Chapter Four: California
Chapter Five: Turn Left at the Rising Sun
Chapter Six: Bittersweet Symphony
Chapter Seven: UNIT Cutaway
Chapter Eight: Semantic Spaces

II: King for a Day

Chapter Nine: A Man Out of Time
Chapter Ten: Bring on the Dancing Horses
Chapter Eleven: The Girl Looked at Johnny
Chapter Twelve: Beyond Belief
Chapter Thirteen: Strange Town
Chapter Fourteen: Treason (It's Just a Story)
Chapter Fifteen: Surfing Blind
Chapter Sixteen: Naked Eye

O, King of Chaos!

Chapter Seventeen: Submission
Chapter Eighteen: Destiny Calling
Chapter Nineteen: Bring It On Down
Chapter Twenty: Screen Kiss
Chapter Twenty-One: Fear of a Dead Planet
Chapter Twenty-Two: Holes
Chapter Twenty-Three: Waiting for Today to Happen
Chapter Twenty-Four: Maybe Tomorrow
Coded Messages
Epilogue: Time's Up
Second Epilogue: Complete Control

Plot

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Characters

References

The Doctor

The Doctor mentions that he witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854.

Individuals

Tegan Jovanka grew up in Caloundra, seventy miles from Brisbane.
By 1999 Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart has met ten Doctors, although he's secretive about which ones and in which order.
Lethbridge-Stewart confronts "Control" (his American opposite number) and considers him disreputable.
Lethbridge-Stewart trusts the Doctor implicitly but still ignores his prohibitions about guns.
Johnny Chess is the son of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. He knows/slept with a future version of Tegan (because she doesn't recognise him).
Geoff smokes Silk Cut cigarettes.

Locations

Griffith Park is the highest point in Los Angeles.

Technology

The Brigadier still has the space-time telegraph.

Food and drinks

Tegan drinks vodka and orange juice.

Notes

This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.^{[source needed]}

Continuity

There are references to the Cybermen invasion, (TV: The Invasion) the Autons, (TV: Spearhead from Space, TV: Terror of the Autons) the General Carrington affair, (TV: The Ambassadors of Death) the Stahlman's gas project, (TV: Inferno) the Waro, (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune) Terminus (TV: Terminus) and the Malus. (TV: The Awakening)
In the declassified UNIT files which were released in 2050, the Doctor is referred to as "Dr Smith." There is some speculation that "the Doctor" is a code name used by a number of agents who worked for UNIT. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
The Doctor says he was present at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 during his second incarnation. (PROSE: World Game) Later in his personal timeline, the Sixth Doctor would also be present at the Battle of Waterloo. On that occasion, he encountered Davros and the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros)
In the attempt to return Will Chandler to 1643, the TARDIS materialised on a planet of extremely intelligent, war-like walking reptilians, whose king wanted to execute the Doctor. (TV: The Awakening)

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