'The Taint' by Michael Collier |
The TARDIS lands in 1963, and soon the Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by one Charles Roley on former sufferers of mental illness - he is probing the psyches of six people who believe they've been possessed by the devil.
While the Doctor is horrified to learn the full extent of the side-effects brought into being by Roley's research, Sam heads off to experience the swinging London of her parents' youth. Instead she experiences deadly danger at the hands of a sinister half-man half-robot double act whose agenda is inextricably linked to Roley's test subjects.
The Doctor has stumbled upon the reawakening of a computerised alien survival programme hidden in the brains of these afflicted people. Tainted with their madness, its new function could destroy all life on Earth...
Publication Date:
February 1999
Notes:
*Featuring the Eighth Doctor and Sam, and introducing Fitz Kreiner
*A BBC Books 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' novel