Dying in the Sun

Dying in the Sun is a novel written by Jon de Burgh Miller. Released in 2001, it is the forty-sixth novel in BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series and tells of the Doctor facing off against beings that can amplify fate.

Characters[]

Second Doctor
Ben Jackson
Polly Wright
Robert Chate
William Fletcher
Harold Reitman
Hannah Wyatt

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Publisher's summary[]

It was the city of angels, and the angels were screaming...

Los Angeles, 1947: multi-millionaire movie producer Harold Reitman has been murdered and the LAPD are convinced that drug dealer Robert Chate is the killer. Detective William Fletcher isn't so sure — he believes that the man who calls himself the Doctor has a stronger connection to the crime than he's letting on.

While the Doctor assists the police with their enquiries, Star Light Pictures are preparing to release their most eagerly anticipated movie yet, Dying in the Sun, a film that rumours say will change the motion-picture industry for ever.

Suspecting that the film holds secrets more terrifying then anyone could ever have imagined, the Doctor decides to do everything in his power to stop it from being released. In Hollywood, however, it is the movie studios that hold all the power...

Plot[]

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A young woman named Hannah Wyatt runs through the streets of Los Angeles to escape a lover named "Raymond". Sitting on a park bench, she is found by a mysterious man. Hannah is instantly lulled by the man into a sense of security. Hannah tells the stranger her backstory - one of snubbed fame. The man pulls out a flask of a glowing gold substance which Hannah finds beautiful. Hannah drinks the substance and finds herself becoming a better version of herself. The man says that "very soon, [she'll] be a star".

First Reel[]

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In-universe continuity[]

The Doctor says that he has not been in the United States for "a while". The last time was presumably during The Gunfighters.
The Doctor says that "evil must be fought", a direct quote from The Moonbase.

The Past Doctor Adventures
1997 The Devil Goblins from Neptune, The Murder Game, The Ultimate Treasure, Business Unusual, Illegal Alien, The Roundheads 1998 The Face of the Enemy, Eye of Heaven, The Witch Hunters, The Hollow Men, Catastrophea, Mission: Impractical, Zeta Major, Dreams of Empire, Last Man Running, Matrix, The Infinity Doctors 1999 Salvation, The Wages of Sin, Deep Blue, Players, Millennium Shock, Storm Harvest, The Final Sanction, City at World's End, Divided Loyalties, Corpse Marker 2000 Last of the Gaderene, Tomb of Valdemar, Verdigris, Grave Matter, Heart of TARDIS, Prime Time, Imperial Moon, Festival of Death, Independence Day, The King of Terror 2001 The Quantum Archangel, Bunker Soldiers, Rags, The Shadow in the Glass, Asylum, Superior Beings, Byzantium!, Bullet Time, Psi-ence Fiction, Dying in the Sun, Instruments of Darkness 2002 Relative Dementias, Drift, Palace of the Red Sun, Amorality Tale, Warmonger, Ten Little Aliens, Combat Rock, The Suns of Caresh, Heritage 2003 Fear of the Dark, Blue Box, Loving the Alien, The Colony of Lies, Wolfsbane, Deadly Reunion 2004 Scream of the Shalka, Empire of Death, The Eleventh Tiger, Synthespians™, The Algebra of Ice, The Indestructible Man 2005 Match of the Day, Island of Death, Spiral Scratch, Fear Itself, World Game, The Time Travellers, Atom Bomb Blues Post-2005 The Wheel of Ice, Harvest of Time, The Drosten's Curse, In the Blood