Deceit is a novel written by Peter Darvill-Evans. Released in 1993, it is the thirteenth novel in Virgin's Doctor Who New Adventures series and serves as a way to reintroduce Ace into the NAs.
Characters[]
- Seventh Doctor
- Bernice Summerfield
- Ace
- Abslom Daak - a clone of the original Daak
- Isabelle Defries - an agent of Earth's Office of External Operations
- Pool - a collective consciousness that runs Arcadia
- Lacuna - Pool's sensory organ
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Publisher's summary[]
"Take Arcadia apart if you have to."
The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Second Dalek War is drawing to an untidy close. Earth's Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.
Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.
A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.
Nothing is what it seems to be.
In-universe continuity[]
- Abslom Daak last appeared (and seemingly died) in Richard and Steve Alan's comic Nemesis of the Daleks. Though the Daak shown in this novel is a clone, the real Daak is rescued from death in Paul Cornell's comic Emperor of the Daleks!.
- This novel ties up plot threads from Andrew Hunt's Witch Mark and some vague elements of Andrew Cartmel's Warhead and Paul Cornell's Love and War.
- Pool (as a part of the Horror) reappears in Lawrence Miles' Bernice Summerfield novel Dead Romance.
- Ace finds a version of Deceit within the Land of Fiction in Steve Lyons' Conundrum.
Sources[]
- Goodreads
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