The Face of the Enemy (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who book
The Face of the Enemy
Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	7
Featuring	The Master, UNIT, the Brigadier, Ian, Barbara, Harry
Writer	David A. McIntee
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-40580-5
Release date	January 5, 1998
Preceded by	'The Roundheads'
Followed by	'Eye of Heaven'

The Face of the Enemy is a BBC Books original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

It is a sequel to the Third Doctor serial Inferno. Contrary to the Third Doctor's assumptions, the alternate Earth depicted therein did not disintegrate after his departure, but many previously human survivors have been mutated into subsentient Primords by the outgassing of their world's mantle.

The novel not only features the Brigadier, UNIT, and the Master, all contemporaneous to the era of the programme in which the story is set, but it also includes appearances by Ian and Barbara after they left the TARDIS (with an interesting update on their activities in the interim), and Harry before he joined UNIT or met the Doctor.

It is notable for being the only Past Doctor Adventure which does not greatly involve the Doctor in any incarnation, although the Third Doctor and Jo Grant have brief, cameo appearances.

As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

External links

• The Face of the Enemy publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Face of the Enemy at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Cloister Library - The Face of the Enemy
• The Face of the Enemy at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

• The Face of the Enemy reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide