Product Description

India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos, torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men', who roam the streets at night and steal people away. With help from India's great spiritual leader, Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi, the Doctor and Donna set out to investigate these rumors. What is the real truth behind the 'half-made men'? Why is Gandhi's role in history under threat? And has an ancient, all-powerful god destruction really come back to wreak his vengeance upon the Earth?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138412 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781846075599
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Mark Morris is the author of fourteen novels, including two previous Doctor Who books, and numerous novellas, short stories, articles and reviews, which have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines. He was born the year that Doctor Who began, but his earliest Who memory, from 1967, is of the Yeti ambling down the mountainside to attack the Det-Sen monastery in The Abominable Snowmen. His website can be found at www.markmorriswriter.com

Customer Reviews

One Word: Gandhi
I am a huge Doctor Who fan but really, I was just browsing the titles one day and I picked this one up. When I read the blurb on the back and it said Gandhi was in the story...well, I had to buy it. How can I resist the Mahatma with the Doctor?

The story is excellent. My only concern was that slamming Gandhi into the story may have been a good excuse to let the plot sag a bit, but my fears were false. This is a rocking good story and a lot of fun to read.

Reading Doctor Who is never going to rival "literature" but there is nothing wrong with a book just for fun in between all the serious books, you know?

At Last, the Dr. in India
There's still nothing like a book by the pool, and, despite my owning a video copy of every episode since #1- Hartnell, not Eckleston- and having the audios, I decided there are times you just need a book.

Which was very convenient, because I was also thinking about how it was a bit odd, given the series' British context, that no Doctor has ever been shown in India. Googling, I found this title, and ordered.

My only complaint was that it was too short. Really looks like a screenplay, as the produced version would have been about an hour. I read it in three stints, and the last one wasn't very long. It was a hot week, and I would have liked about twice as long. Other than that it was classic- if one dare use the term- Doctor and Donna. Very satisfying.