The Dark Path.pdf

THEDARKPATH

A NORIGINALNOVELFEATURINGTHESECOND D OCTOR ,

J AMIEAND V ICTORIA .

‘HE’SONEOFMYOWNPEOPLE,VICTORIA,ANDHE’SHUNTINGME.’

Darkheart: a faded neutron star surrounded by dead planets. But there is

life on one of these icy rocks – the last enclave of the Earth Empire, frozen

in the image of another time. As the rest of the galaxy enjoys the fruits of

the ﬂedgling Federation, these isolated Imperials, bound to obey a forgotten

ideal, harbour a dark obsession.

The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive to ﬁnd that the Federation has at last

come to reintegrate this lost colony, whether they like it or not. But all is

not well in the Federation camp: relations and allegiances are changing.

The ﬁerce Veltrochni – angered by the murder of their kinsmen – have an

entirely different agenda. And someone else is manipulating the mission for

his own mysterious reasons – another time traveller, a suave and assured

master of his work.

The Doctor must uncover the terrible secret which brought the Empire to

this desolate sector, and ﬁnd the source of the strange power maintaining

their society. But can a Time Lord, facing the ultimate temptation, control

his own desires?

ThisadventuretakesplacebetweenthetelevisionstoriesTHEWEBOF

FEARandFURYFROMTHEDEEP,andaftertheMissingAdventure

TWILIGHTOFTHEGODS.

DavidA.McIntee has written three New Adventures and two previous

Missing Adventures. Unlikely as it seems, he is in touch with reality – he

says it’s a nice place to visit, but he wouldn’t like to live there.

THE

DARK PATH

David A. McIntee

First published in Great Britain in 1997 by

Doctor Who Books

an imprint of Virgin Publishing Ltd

332 Ladbroke Grove

London W10 5AH

The right of David A. McIntee to be identiﬁed as the Author of this Work

has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and

Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 0 426 20503 0

Cover illustration by Alister Pearson

Typeset by Galleon Typesetting, Ipswich

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Mackays of Chatham PLC.

All characters in this publication are ﬁctitious and any resemblance to real

persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade

or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the

publisher’s prior wntten consent in any form of binding or cover other than

that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this

condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

And Now for a Word. . .

Well, here we are again, for, I fear, the last time. I hope we’ve had

some interesting times, you and I. If not, well, why did you payout

the money for this? I’ve had an interesting time over the last four or

ﬁve years anyway. (Ye gods, has it been that long?) Anyway, if I should

wander away from the world of Dr Who , hopefully there is some cor-

ner of a Forbidden Planet that will remain forever Scotland. . .

Special thanks this time go to Alister Pearson for the likenesses of

Troughton and Delgado. (The creature was supposed to look more

like a cross between a Klingon and a Predator than one of the Toads

from Bucky O’Hare, but it does look like a sixties SF costume. . . ) Also

due some of the credit is Roger Clark, for help with the research into

Victoria’s episodes.

Now, after those two action-based books, I promised you something

more introspective last time, didn’t I? As a wise man once said, I am

a man of my word; in the end, that’s all there is. . . Onward and

upward, if you’ll forgive the C.S. Lewis; there are many other worlds

to write, both licensed and original. Maybe we’ll meet again in one

of them. So, there isn’t much else to say except: let’s see what’s out

there. . .

(Or, if we don’t meet again: it was fun.)

And remember: once you start down the dark path, forever will it

domin– Oh, I can’t say that can I? It’s copyrighted. Well, you know

what I mean!

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