A novel of the seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. This takes place in Hong Kong before the changeover. Sara Jane has gone to Hong Kong to get an on-the ground perspective of the hand-over. She becomes embroiled with a Chinese gang whose leader is a white man known as the Doctor.
This book suffers a little from having too big a cast and a lot of plot lines to track, the author is only semi-successful in joining the whole thing at the end.

re-read 7/11/2023 ( )

Do you want a Doctor Who novel that hardly features the Doctor, is angsty and squalid for no reason, casually kills the most important companion in the show's history and all hinges upon an extremely cliched story?

Then this is the Doctor Who book for you. McIntee may be the worst of the repeat Doctor Who novelists. He seems actively hostile to the show, to science fiction and to the idea that these books should be entertaining.

I liked his book about The Master, for some reason, but the others I've read of his are terrible. ( )

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2765570.html

The final Seventh doctor novel in terms of continuity, actually it is much more about Sarah Jane Smith in Hong Kong just before the 1997 handover, getting sucked into what at first appears to be a criminal conspiracy but turns out to be the work of aliens - well, one alien in particular... I felt that Hong Kong itself was well conveyed, and the plot had enough twists involving characters I was interested in to make up for the fact that it's relatively light on the Doctor. I'm also not in general a big fan of the Seventh=Doctor-as-cosmic-manipulator, but it worked OK here. However, certain events at the end don't sit so well in overall Who continuity. ( )