'The Deviant Strain' by Justin Richards

The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten.

Until the Russian Special Forces arrive and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing.

Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain...


Publication Date:
8th September 2005

Notes:
*Featuring the Ninth Doctor, Rose, Captain Jack and Jackie

*A BBC Books 'Ninth Doctor Adventures' novel

*Time-placing: Justin Richards, creative director for the BBC's 'Doctor Who' books, has stated that this story takes place between 'Boom Town' and 'Bad Wolf'

*Bad Wolf sighting: blind old Georgi Zinoviev forsees his death by "the bad wolf" - a man with a wolf tattoo on his arm...