Feliks, an acquaintance of the Doctor's, is killed in an accident. He leaves the Doctor a coded message. With difficulty, the Doctor decodes the message and finds himself caught up in the middle of a dangerous, world-threatening conflict.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Doctor who came in from the Cold War,
This review is from: Doctor Who: Endgame (Dr Who) (Paperback)
I was pretty critical of the first two books in the current Doctor Who story arc ('The Burning' and 'Casualties of War') because both failed to convey the impression that the Doctor had lost his memory. The third book, 'The Turing Test', was a vast improvement in this regard, the best had yet to come. In the second prologue to this book, Ace and the Doctor's seventh incarnation see a man who the Doctor thinks looks familiar, but then concludes he has never met before. It is plain from the description that this man is the Doctor's eighth incarnation, and the two have in fact met...This book is set during the Cold War, and as it progresses the Doctor is drawn into then world of espionage and double agents (Kim Philby is one of the most prominent supporting characters), and comes up against old enemies who remember him from his second and sixth lives, the extradimensional being known as the Players. I've never been a great fan of spy thrillers, so a large part of this book certainly wasn't my cup of tea. However, there are quite a few scenes that rise from the spy story and plainly mark this as Doctor Who. While I've only rated this 3 stars, that second prologue deserves 5 stars!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Back to Basics,
By Michael Lee (St. Louis Park, MN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor Who: Endgame (Dr Who) (Paperback)
It's Terrance Dicks' best Doctor Who book since Exodus, written nearly ten years ago. To some extent, it suffers from immediately following the excellent Turing Test, as Endgame covers much the same ground, being a cold war spy drama instead of a WWII one. But it's a very quick light read, good for a warm summer day.It's somewhat odd at times that there's a lot of focus on the Doctor's lost memory -- by this point, he's been without his memory for over fifty years. In the end though, this series of Doctor Who novels is turning out to be the best I've read in a long time, starting with the Burning but especially Casualties of War and the Turning Test. I'd heard that from the people that are more caught up than I, and they're right.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A different Doctor story...,
By Daniel Firli (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor Who: Endgame (Dr Who) (Paperback)
The 4th in the 'Stuck on Earth with no memory' story arc sees the Doctor fed up with others problems and just wanting to be left alone. After the death of a friend, who leaves him with secret documents concerning a myterious third player in the Cold War era bent on destroying the world, The Doctor (after much blackmailing) is forced to save the world again.This novel reads like an action spy thriller, with the Doctor amazing everyone with his fighting prowess, his 'vulcan' neck pinch and his short hair. It also see the return of 'The Players' from their self-titled book also by Dicks. If you're not familiar with these characters, escpecially the motivation for the Countess, you will feel very underwhelmed towards the end of the novel. Actually, I knew about them and was still underwhelmed. I'm thinking this might mean another excursion into the 'Players' at a later date. A distracting point in the novel, comes around page 177 where it seems the editing crew must have been sleeping as one of the main villian's name keeps alternating from Myrek to Marek. A small mistake but it does break the flow of the story. I recommend this book, but only for a different kind of Doctor Who story which would have been better off without the 'Players' involved.
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