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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*     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) Read it The Eight Doctors
2) Read it Vampire Science
3) Read it The Bodysnatchers
4) Read it Genocide
5) Read it War of the Daleks
6) Read it Alien Bodies
7) Read it Kursaal
8) Read it Option Lock
9) Read it Longest Day
10) Read it Legacy of the Daleks
11) Read it Dreamstone Moon
12) Read it Seeing I
13) Read it Placebo Effect
14) Read it Vanderdeken's Children
15) Read it The Scarlet Empress
16) Read it The Janus Conjunction
17) Read it Beltempest
18) Read it The Face-Eater
19) Read it The Taint
20) Read it Demontage
21) Read it Revolution Man
22) Read it Dominion
23) Read it Unnatural History
24) Read it Autumn Mist
25) Read it Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Read it Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) Read it The Blue Angel
28) Read it The Taking of Planet 5
29) Read it Frontier Worlds
30) Read it Parallel 59
31) Read it Shadows of Avalon
32) Read it The Fall of Yquatine
33) Read it Coldheart
34) Read it The Space Age
35) Read it The Banquo Legacy
36) Read it The Ancestor Cell
37) Read it The Burning
38) Read it Casualties of War
39) Read it The Turing Test
40) Read it Endgame
41) Read it Father Time
42) Read it Escape Velocity
43) Read it Earthworld
44) Read it Vanishing Point
45) Read it Eater of Wasps
46) Read it The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) Read it The Slow Empire
48) Read it Dark Progeny
49) Read it City of the Dead
50) Read it Grimm Reality
51) Read it The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Read it Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Read it Hope
54) Read it Anachrophobia
55) Read it Trading Futures
56) Read it The Book of the Still
57) Read it The Crooked World
58) Read it History 101
59) Read it Camera Obscura
60) Read it Time Zero
61) Read it The Infinity Race
62) Read it The Domino Effect
63) Read it Reckless Engineering
64) Read it The Last Resort
65) Read it Timeless
66) Read it Emotional Chemistry
67) Read it Sometime Never...
68) Read it Halflife
69) Read it The Tomorrow Windows
70) Read it The Sleep of Reason
71) Read it The Deadstone Memorial
72) Read it To the Slaughter
73) Read it 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.'
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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
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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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