Product Description

Sarah Jane Smith and her firend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342833 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

simply a brillent read
if youlike the third doctor and Sarah Jane you really must read this book. Possibly the best DR WHO book of 2005 so far.
The author obviously knows the 3rd doctor inside out (as he should)and it shows throughout the book.

Buy it and read it you wont be disapointed

Boring
Sadly disappointed with this adventure by Barry Letts. The whole thing moves very slowly. It seems Mr. Letts had a good idea that would have possibly made a good 2-4 episode televised broadcast, or a good short story. This book seems filled with padding to reach the 280th page! There are lots of boring bits and boring characters that slow the whole thing down and don't move the plot ahead at all. Sadly, the Third Doctor, Sarah, and the Brig are also very boring.
I have moved on to "The Stone Rose" and "The Deadstone Memorial" and each certainly deserves 5 stars!

Alien invasion of the week...
Despite his classic work in the 70's on Doctor Who, Barry Letts doesn't have good form for his more recent work, and continuity-wise Island of Death slots in after the much maligned radio dramas The Paradise of Death and the Ghosts of N-Space. The plot is very generic, with a corpse on Hampstead Heath leading the 3rd Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and the Brigadier off to combat a group of new age cultists who are summoning an invasion force of parasitic aliens. The novel grinds to a halt during an interminable 100-page sea journey as the regulars give chase to the cultists, and the supporting characters are either caricatures or distinguishable only by name. When events finally get to the island the alien Skang are reasonably interesting thanks to their `perception is reality' hypnotic powers, and Letts keeps enough moments of light humour with the regulars going (including the Doctor literally talking to fishes) that the novel is at least readable. By no means a good novel, Island of Death is at least an improvement on Letts segment of the Deadly Reunion novel written with Terrance Dicks.