The Analysis Bureau (novel)

The Analysis Bureau
Key crew
Publisher:	Candy Jar Books
Editor:	Andy Frankham-Allen, Shaun Russell, Keren Williams
Writer:	Tom Dexter
Illustrator:	Martin Baines
Cover by:	Lee Sullivan
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	12 August 2022

The Analysis Bureau was a spin-off novel of Lethbridge-Stewart, released by Candy Jar Books in August 2022.

Publisher's summary

The Analysis Bureau does not exist. Ask any questions about it, and the same answers always greet you. There's no trace of any department matching that name in any branch of Government, only speculation and wild rumours.

At the beginning of the 1960s, some conspiracy theorists even started to claim that there was a village, once the home to an entire community, abandoned during the Second World War due to flooding. They said it’s where experiments and tests are being carried out. Some even claim that the Analysis Bureau used the village as a base of operations, and that there were underground bunkers built way beneath the rural façade of cottages, shops and even a village green.

Of course, those who got anywhere near the truth disappeared just as quickly as the people who asked too many questions, because they were the ones who refused to believe that there was no such thing as the Analysis Bureau.

Plot

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Characters

• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Professor Travers
• Tobias Vaughn
• Packer
• Mr Quebec
• Professor Amelia Stone (aka Flower)
• Corporal Thomas Banks
• The Minister
• Tosher
• Grubber
• Staff Sergeant Powell
• Station Master Edgar Rumble
• Sir John Wilder
• Professor Watkins
• Ronnie

References

• Amelia Stone was friends with a performer named David Jones, the birth name of David Bowie.
• Mr Quebec is implied to have taken the blame for the events of the original Quatermass story. Grubber was arrested for stealing fragments of a capsule at Knightsbridge, referencing Quatermass and the Pit.
• Mr Quebec refers to "Dr Quist's team", "Sir Michael Gerrard", and "the Ministry of Research" as other people who could investigate in Incident Two. Quist was the lead of the 1970s show Doomwatch. Sir Michael was the lead in mid-60s show R3 about a unit working for a Ministry of Research.
• Doctor Anthony Ridge has a brother called John, a reference to Dr John Ridge in Doomwatch.
• The stories predate the 1968 story The Invasion, and Professor Watkins is featured in The Synthetic Man, detailing his first encounter with Tobias Vaughn and Packer.

Notes

• The book comprises of four short stories. The first three are interlinked. The fourth story is an unpublished 'lost' Lethbridge-Stewart story, Originally planned as a free on-line story via the Candy Jar Books website, it was held back when it was realised the theme of the Brigadier being imprisoned clashed with the plot of their book Mind Of Stone.
• The story titles are The Reconnaissance Of Death, The Damocles Project and The Synthetic Man. The 'lost' story is called Hide In Plain Sight.
• The stories are referred to as 'Incidents' rather than stories, as a tribute to Philip Martin, who called each episode of his TV series, Gangsters, in the same way, instead of calling them Episode One, Episode Two, etc. Martin also worked for Candy Jar Books, who published his third Gangsters novel shortly after he passed away.

Continuity

• Grubber's Moles retrieved technology from the Shoreditch Incident (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and the Post Office Tower (TV: The War Machines).
• The third story shows the abduction of Professor Watkins by Vaughn. (TV: The Invasion)

External links

• Official The Analysis Bureau page at Candy Jar Books