DOCTOR WHO TARGET BOOKS

The Ribos Operation

by Ian Marter

First published: 1979

Reprinted 1980, 1982

Cover artist: John Geary

Blurb

Reluctantly cancelling his well-earned holiday, the Doctor sets off in the TARDIS to trace and re-assemble the six segments of the Key to Time on which the stability of the entire Universe depends.

Assisted by the argumentative Romanadvoratrelundar and K9, he lands on the planet Ribos in search of the first segment and finds himself entangled in the machinations of two sinister strangers, Garron and the Graff Vynda Ka

Who are they? Is Garron simply a shady confidence-trickster dealing in interplanetary real estate? Is the Graf Vynda Ka just a power-crazed exile bent on revenge? Or are they both really agents of the Black Guardian, intent upon seizing the precious Key in order to throw the Universe into eternal chaos?

Risking his life within the monster-infested catacombs of Ribos, the Doctor has to use all his wit and ingenuity to find out...

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