Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166226 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

Synopsis
Features the Doctor from the BBC TV series "Doctor Who". Ace has rejoined the Doctor and Benny. The Doctor's last three visits to the scattered human colonies of the third millennium have not entirely been successful and so they head for the tropics on Earth in the 20th century.

Customer Reviews

Berneice of the Dead
The Doctor, Ace and Benny return to an Earth - Haiti to be exact - in the throes of the First World War.
The plot is a mishmash of Indiana Jones and James Bond outtakes; but surprisingly it works! Baron Samedi from 'Live & Let Die' is using voodoo and zombification to facilitate a takeover of the earth by the 'Old Ones' - we are never really told who these beings are, apart from old enemies of the Time Lords who rode 'the time winds' (for no apparent reason).
Despite this self-referential nonsense the story is fast-paced and exciting; likeable and well-rounded characters and a Doctor who is both resourceful and compassionate, without being too enigmatic.
The real attention-grabber here though is Ace; she appears to be turning into a fully-fledged psycho, almost enjoying the killing which is becoming more and more a facet of her persona.
All-in-all this is one of the highlights of the 'Further Adventure' series so far - although the tension between the two companions is beginning to stretch very thin...