The King of Terror

The King of Terror

Author	Keith Topping
Series	Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	37
Subject	Featuring: Fifth Doctor Tegan, Turlough, The Brigadier, and UNIT
Set in	Period between The Awakening and Frontios
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	November 2000
Pages	279
ISBN	0-563-53802-3
Preceded by	Independence Day
Followed by	The Quantum Archangel

The King of Terror is a BBC Books original novel written by Keith Topping and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, The Brigadier, and UNIT.

The title may be a reference to a purported prophecy by Nostradamus predicting the arrival of a "King of Terror." Some scholars have argued the phrase is a misinterpretation of one French word for another, but nevertheless it remains in popular use.^[1]

Plot

Suspecting the American multimedia company Intercom of nefarious activities, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and Tegan to investigate. At their Los Angeles HQ, the pair run into terrorists obsessed with an ancient prophecy and aliens who turn the city into a battle ground.

References

↑ "King of Terror" at About.com

External links

Reviews

The King of Terror reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
The King of Terror reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Past Doctor Adventures

First Doctor	The Witch Hunters Salvation City at World's End Bunker Soldiers Byzantium! Ten Little Aliens The Eleventh Tiger The Time Travellers

Second Doctor	The Murder Game The Roundheads Dreams of Empire The Final Sanction Heart of TARDIS Independence Day Dying in the Sun Combat Rock The Colony of Lies The Indestructible Man World Game

Third Doctor	The Devil Goblins from Neptune The Face of the Enemy Catastrophea The Wages of Sin Last of the Gaderene Verdigris Rags Amorality Tale The Suns of Caresh Deadly Reunion Island of Death

Fourth Doctor	Eye of Heaven Last Man Running Millennium Shock Corpse Marker Tomb of Valdemar Heart of TARDIS Festival of Death Asylum Psi-ence Fiction Drift Wolfsbane Match of the Day

Fifth Doctor	The Ultimate Treasure Zeta Major Deep Blue Divided Loyalties Imperial Moon The King of Terror Superior Beings Warmonger Fear of the Dark Empire of Death

Sixth Doctor	Business Unusual Mission: Impractical Players Grave Matter The Quantum Archangel The Shadow in the Glass Instruments of Darkness Palace of the Red Sun Blue Box Synthespians™ Spiral Scratch

Seventh Doctor	Illegal Alien The Hollow Men Matrix Storm Harvest Prime Time Independence Day Bullet Time Relative Dementias Heritage Loving the Alien The Colony of Lies The Algebra of Ice Atom Bomb Blues

Eighth Doctor	Wolfsbane Fear Itself

Other	The Infinity Doctors Scream of the Shalka

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