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Trading Futures

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Copyright © Lance Parkin 2002
2002
Science Fiction; Television Tie-In
2002
1 time
See 22
Prologue - The Banquo Legacy
1 - Friendly Fire
2 - A Case for the Doctor
3 - A Pretty Girl Is Like a Malady
4 - Never Say Neverland Again
5 - Baskerville
6 - Time Trip
7 - All Fall Down
8 - Time and Tide
9 - After the Deluge
10 - The Secrets of Time
Jaxa's Story
11 - Bankruptcy
12 - The Spy Who Shot Me
13 - Tomorrow Never Lies
14 - When Rhinos Attack
15 - Time-Flight
16 - Dealbeaker
17 - Stand Off(ish)
18 - Boom and Bust
19 - Action
20 - Endgame
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 Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*
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Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

1) The Eight Doctors
2) Vampire Science
3) The Bodysnatchers
4) Genocide
5) War of the Daleks
6) Alien Bodies
7) Kursaal
8) Option Lock
9) Longest Day
10) Legacy of the Daleks
11) Dreamstone Moon
12) Seeing I
13) Placebo Effect
14) Vanderdeken's Children
15) The Scarlet Empress
16) The Janus Conjunction
17) Beltempest
18) The Face-Eater
19) The Taint
20) Demontage
21) Revolution Man
22) Dominion
23) Unnatural History
24) Autumn Mist
25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) The Blue Angel
28) The Taking of Planet 5
29) Frontier Worlds
30) Parallel 59
31) Shadows of Avalon
32) The Fall of Yquatine
33) Coldheart
34) The Space Age
35) The Banquo Legacy
36) The Ancestor Cell
37) The Burning
38) Casualties of War
39) The Turing Test
40) Endgame
41) Father Time
42) Escape Velocity
43) Earthworld
44) Vanishing Point
45) Eater of Wasps
46) The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) The Slow Empire
48) Dark Progeny
49) City of the Dead
50) Grimm Reality
51) The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Hope
54) Anachrophobia
55) Trading Futures
56) The Book of the Still
57) The Crooked World
58) History 101
59) Camera Obscura
60) Time Zero
61) The Infinity Race
62) The Domino Effect
63) Reckless Engineering
64) The Last Resort
65) Timeless
66) Emotional Chemistry
67) Sometime Never...
68) Halflife
69) The Tomorrow Windows
70) The Sleep of Reason
71) The Deadstone Memorial
72) To the Slaughter
73) The Gallifrey Chronicles
No dedication.
Now Baskerville mentioned it, the night was getting cold.
May contain spoilers
'OK, you two, let's get back to the TARDIS.'
No comments on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)
Malady passed through airport security without a hitch, despite the two guns, the knives, the explosives and the hunter/killer software that were either on her or in her luggage.  As ever that left her feeling both smug and unsettled.

She only had hand luggage, and had been to Athens airport before, so was confident she'd be out of the terminal building in a matter of minutes.

That was until she strode straight into the first target, the Englishman in the long coat, the Doctor.  He had also been striding along the main concourse, when he suddenly stopped to tie his shoelaces.

She tripped over him, rolled over his back and landed uncomfortably on his other side.

'I'm so terribly sorry,' he said.  After doing up his lace, he held out his hand, helped her up.  'I'm the Doctor.'

'I'm Malady Chang.'  She was too busy looking for 'Anji' to bother with an alias.  The Asian girl was behind them, struggling to keep up with the Doctor.

'An unusual name.'

'My parents didn't know what it meant.  They liked The Three Musketeers, and there's a "M'Lady" in that.  I think they wanted to be a lady.'

'I suppose my parents must have wanted me to be a definite article,' the Doctor said, smiling.

Malady picked up her bag.  'Are you here on business?'

'I am.  And it looks like our... ah... business associate is here.'

A Teutonic-looking man in a dark suit was introducing himself to Anii, who had passed over a small piece of card.  He wasn't particularly heavily built, but moved as though he was trying not to look combat trained.  Malady smirked - hopefully she was better at that than he was.

'Doctor?' he came over and asked.

The Doctor nodded happily.

'If you'll excuse me?' he asked Malady, before walking off with the man.

At least she'd slipped a buglet into his... she glanced down, and saw the surveillance device lying on the concourse floor.

Malady waited a moment before hurrying after them.  Outside, the Doctor and his companion were just getting into a silver limousine.

Malady crossed over to the taxi rank, and told the driver (who seemed surprised by her fluent Greek), to follow the Doctor's car.  The taxi driver was pleased to, telling her he'd seen people say that in the movies, but in ten years of being a taxi driver no one had ever asked him to follow a car before.

Malady stayed alert.  'Any idea where they're heading?' she asked.  Her training called this technique 'gathering data from a local soft asset'.

'Towards the docks?' the driver guessed.  'Ten minutes or so, even in this traffic.'

'OK.  She kept her eyes on the car in front - she wanted to stay ready for anything.  The car didn't have tinted windows or privacy LCD - she could see the Doctor and Anji sitting primly in the back seat.

The taxi driver was wrong - the limousine was now heading away from the docks.

'Ah, business district,' the driver told her.

There were more modern buildings here - it must be some new development.  Still a bit of a ghost town.  Most of the new office blocks looked empty.

Characters
Doctor 8 - (Doctor)
Fitz Kreiner - (Companion)
Anji Kapoor - (Companion)

 

Added: 04-Jun-2002
Last Updated: 14-Feb-2025

Publications

 08-Apr-2002
BBC Books
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
08-Apr-2002
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
£5.99
Pages*:
249
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
718
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-563-53848-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-53848-6
Printing:
1
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Blacksheep  - Cover Artist
'Welcome to the future.

The early decades of the twenty-first century.  All the wars have been won.  There are no rogue states.  The secret service of the world keep the planet electronically monitored, safe from threat.  There is no one left for the United States and the Eurozone to fight.  Except each other.

A mysterious time traveller offers a better future - he has a time machine, and with it, humanity could reach the next stage of evolution, they could share its secrets and become the new Lords of Time...

...either that, or someone could keep the technology for themselves and use it to fight the ultimate war.

This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.
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Notes and Comments:
First published 2002
First printing assumed
USA: $6.95
Canada: $8.99

Original series broadcast on the BBC Format © BBC 1963
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BBC Books
Mass Market Paperback

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