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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Doctor Who Endgame by Terrance Dicks Doctor Who: Endgame by Terrance Dicks. THIS STORY TAKES. PLACE AROUND SEVEN. YEARS AFTER THE END. OF THE NOVEL "THE. TURING TEST," AND. AROUND THIRTY YEARS. PRIOR TO THE START. OF THE NOVEL "FATHER. TERRANCE DICKS. RECOMMENDED. OFFICIAL BBC 'EIGHTH. DOCTOR' PAPERBACK. (ISBN 0-563-53822-8) RELEASED IN NOVEMBER. The Players have. ALL decided on an. Endgame. Play ends. only when one side. has been annihilated - even if the planet is. TOTALLY destroyed. in the process. They. weren't expecting the. Doctor to be one of. their pieces - and. neither was he. He. doesn't want to get. The Doctor doesn't. know who he is - but. he's fast ceasing to. care. Caught up in. ennui, nothing seems. to matter to him. He. has no interest in. the Cold War, OR in. spies, double agents. or secret documents. But he's soon forced. to take an active. role. Because as far. as the authorities. are concerned, the. Doctor is The Third. Man. Terrance Dicks was a curious choice to pen a novel in this heavily-stylised �eighth Doctor lost on Earth� arc. Particularly when released between profound literary dramas the like of The Turing Test and Father Time , a rollicking yarn from Uncle Terrance was always going to feel a little blithe and a little discordant. However, for all its nonchalance, Endgame does its job well, telling a neat and tidy story - with neat and tidy hair - that offers the reader. a little respite from the weight of surrounding stories, as well as providing a timely reminder that the darkness is worth nought without the light. Endgame has an devastating sense of fun about it; a buoyancy that initially seems at odds with the Cold War setting and nuclear warning symbol emblazoned on its cover. However, once the reader has resigned himself to the confines of Dicks� colourful little world - over-flowing as it is with homosexual spies, their asinine appellations, and their insatiable thirst for drink - the pages of painless prose just fly by. I don�t think that it�s ever taken me more than a couple of hours to tear through this one. Narratively, there is little to set. Endgame apart from Players. which it follows, and World. Game which would follow it. Once again Dicks� Players. are stage-managing world. leaders, the only difference. being that this time around, the consequences are a little. higher. Stalin and Truman are both sat on potentially apocalyptic nuclear arsenals, and both seem suddenly eager to use them� True to form, Dicks shoehorns a few historical factoids into the piece � references to the Marshall Plan and Truman�s unlikely ascent to the United States� Presidency are woven in between James Bond-like set pieces, instilling such a Target-like taste that one struggles. to believe that Endgame is part of the same arc that produced The Burning or The Turing Test . Indeed, this novel is predicated on a classic 1970s Who paradigm; even its Doctor is world-weary and reticent, beset by ennui. The portrayal here is a little more sophisticated than it was back in Jon Pertwee � s day, admittedly, Dicks playing the stale, but nonetheless effective, �I�ll outlive all my friends� card to surprisingly stirring effect. The book also features one or two moments of unexpected initiative, such as the Doctor�s exciting encounter with the Countess and what she offers him - the ramifications of which would linger right until the range�s final novel � and even his increased calling upon alien knowledge that he still can�t account for. Whether these things were the work of the author, however, I can�t say - given that Dicks turned in a late, under- length manuscript and then buggered off on holiday, I wouldn�t be surprised if editor Justin Richards was responsible. for Endgame �s more triumphant touches. And so for a novel that�s author couldn�t bother to finish it, Endgame is, astonishingly, really quite an enjoyable read. Bright, breezy and almost farcically frivolous, this one isn�t even in the same league as its lofty peers, but there�s still no need to burn it after reading. Copyright � E.G. Wolverson 20 10. E.G. Wolverson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. For the eighth Doctor, this story takes place approximately seven years after the end of The Turing Test. Following Alan Turing�s suicide three years after the events of this novel, the Doctor resumes the dragon. hunt told of in The Year of Intelligent Tigers before taking refuge in a Tibetan monastery, where he would remain until 1962. Thereafter little is known of the Doctor�s exploits prior the 1980s, though the short story Mordieu posited that the Doctor would spend some of the intervening years working as movie screenwriter. in Hollywood (a plausible conceit, given his literary aspirations explored in Wolfsbane ). The prologue featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace at the Festival of Britain takes place just after the events. of the novel Timewyrm: Exodus. Unless otherwise stated, all images on this site are copyrighted to the BBC and are used solely for promotional purposes. Doctor Who: Endgame by Terrance Dicks. The Players have decided on an Endgame. Play ends only when one side has been annihilated -- even if the entire planet is destroyed in the process. They weren�t expecting the Doctor to be one of the pieces -- and neither was he. He really doesn�t want to get involved. The Doctor doesn�t know who he is -- but he�s fast ceasing to care. Caught up in ennui, nothing seems to matter to him any more. He has no interest in the Cold War, in spies or double agents or secret documents. This is another book in the series of original adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor. It is also a sequel to Terrance Dicks� 6th Doctor novel Players. Released: November 2000 ISBN: 0 563 53822 8. The Players have tired of Earth, except for the Countess. However, she has been outvoted. Play will proceed to an Endgame, and continue until one side can claim total victory, even if this means the destruction of the Earth. London, 1951. The Doctor has been on Earth for five decades and doesn�t appear to have aged a day. He has given up all hope of ever knowing who he was, and spends his days at the British Library and his nights sitting in the darkness of his rented flat next to an empty blue box. When his Polish acquaintance Oskar Dolinski comes to him, claiming to have acquired documents which his enemies will kill to retrieve, the Doctor doesn�t believe him; Oskar is obsessed with restoring his homeland�s rightful government and sees conspiracies around every corner. But that night, on his way home, the Doctor sees a group of thugs trying to drag Oskar into a rented car, and instinctively intervenes, driving them off. He offers to let Oskar sleep in his flat until he�s sure it�s safe, but Oskar feels guilty about involving the Doctor and slips out while the Doctor is sleeping, leaving the stolen documents behind. Outside, however, he is picked up by the thugs and taken to the Russian Trade Delegation headquarters, where his kidnappers beat him to death but fail to learn where he left the documents. British agent Guy Burgess has been sent home from Washington in disgrace due to his debauchery, drunkenness and open homosexuality, and his fellow agent Kim Philby has returned as well while tempers cool. Or so he claims. Young Jimmy Melville is on the trail of the stolen documents, and Philby intends to keep an eye on his progress. Both Philby and Russian cultural attache Vasili Mikoyan are well aware that if the documents reach their superiors, or even ambitious underlings, the consequences could be disastrous. Krychov, the officer in charge of Oskar�s interrogation, has reported his failure to Mikoyan, who concludes that Oskar must have been a field agent and that the mysterious Doctor who seemed so well trained in the martial arts was his superior. He thus orders that the Doctor be brought in for questioning. The next day, the Doctor reads of Oskar�s death in the newspapers, and, stunned, decides to mail the documents to himself to keep them safe. He is intercepted on his way out of the post office by Krychov and his men, however, and taken for interrogation. Fortunately, Melville has been keeping the Doctor under surveillance, and he rescues the Doctor before the interrogation can get seriously brutal. However, before anyone can stop him, the Doctor lashes out at the thugs who killed Oskar, crippling them both with a single blow. He is sedated and sent to hospital, where he recovers and escapes before the British agents can begin to question him. Philby has arranged for the Doctor�s package to be intercepted by the postal authorities, but the Doctor uses stolen ID to reclaim it. By this time, however, Philby has been reminded of a report he received from Graham Greene during World War Two, of a bizarre incident which also involved a mysterious, nameless Doctor. Melville searches the Doctor�s flat and finds only a large blue box, and Philby gives him certain instructions. Hoping to trade the documents for his solitude, the Doctor tries to decode the message. All he can determine, however, is that it appears to be a communique across Cold War lines, suggesting that there is a traitor on at least one side.

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