The Face of the Enemy (novel)

The Face of the Enemy
Main character(s):	The Master Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Featuring:	Ian Chesterton Barbara Wright
Main enemy:	The Master The Conclave
Main setting:	Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	David A. McIntee
Release details
Release number:	7
Release date:	January 1998
Format:	Paperback Book, 288 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0563405805

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma...

Robbery and murder are on the increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key.

Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth.

As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest enemy...

Characters

• The Master
  • Is prepared to work with UNIT as long as it benefits him.
  • Takes action against the government of the parallel universe because of how they treated his parallel self.
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
  • Is now divorced.
  • Has been tutored by the Doctor in how to disable a Time Lord, just in case someone needs to stop the Master again.
• Mike Yates
• Ian Chesterton
  • Is in his late 30s.
• Barbara Wright Chesterton
  • Teaches history at a local comprehensive school.

References

• Ian and Barbara's son John is in primary school.
• Ian and Barbara eloped on their 1 year anniversary of returning to Earth.
• Both Ian and Barbara required treatment from their exposure to radiation on Skaro.
• Ian and Barbara are writing a journal to leave for Susan in 2167.
• The Brigadier meets Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan for the first time.
• Following his arrest in Devil's End, the Master is held in Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre.

Notes

• This story occurs concurrent with the Doctor and Jo's visit to Peladon in The Curse of Peladon. It is the only PDA release in which some incarnation of the Doctor is not featured.

Continuity

• This ties in with DW: Inferno showing the after-affects of the Inferno project on the alternate Earth which, contrary to the Doctor's assumption in that story, has not disintegrated, but has been devastated beyond recovery.
• Ian and Barbara returned to Earth in DW: The Chase.
• Ian and Barbara's marriage was revealed in MA: Goth Opera.
• The Master hides his TARDIS in Devils End. He is depicted recovering it in EDA: The Eight Doctors.

Timeline

• The Face of the Enemy's events are concurrent with DW: The Curse of Peladon
• The Face of the Enemy occurs after: DW: The Dæmons

As the Master is still in custody following his arrest in Devil's End.

• The Face of the Enemy occurs before DW: The Sea Devils

As the Master has not been transferred to his new prison on Fortress Island.

External links

• The Face of the Enemy at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Face of the Enemy at The Whoniverse
• Doctor Who Bewildering Reference Guide to The Face of the Enemy, with notes from David A. McIntee via Internet Archive: Wayback Machine