DOCTOR WHO TARGET BOOKS

The Ambassadors of Death

by Terrance Dicks

First published: 1987

Cover artist: Tony Masero

Number in Doctor Who Library: 121

Blurb

Seven months after it left Mars there has still been no radio communication with the Probe Seven spacecraft or the astronauts inside it. Back on Earth concern is mounting and eventually a recovery capsule is sent up to rescue the astronauts.

But when the capsule returns to Earth it is found to be empty. As the Doctor and Liz investigate, they discover that the interior of the capsule is highly radioactive: if anyone was inside they would now surely be dead

Have the astronauts indeed returned to Earth? And if not, who are the sinister space-suited figures who stalk the countryside and whose very touch means instant death?

Chapters

1  'Something Took Off From Mars...'
2  'That Sound – It Was Some Kind Of Message...'
3  'They'll Never Survive...'
4  'Recovery Seven – It's On The Way Back!'
5  'The Capsule Has Landed.'
6  'They've Started To Crack The Code...'
7  'You Must Feed Them Radiation – Or They'll Die!'
8  'We've Got To Get That Rocket Up!'
9  'Someone's Threatening To Kill Miss Shaw!'
10  'An Attack On The Space Centre?'
11  'Do You Really Think They're Not Human?'
12  'Large Unidentified Object Approaching On Collision Course...'
13  'The Capsule Will Be Smashed To Fragments...'
14  'Your Doctor Friend Is As Dead As A Doornail...'
15  'We May Not Have Much More Time!'
16  'We're Being Invaded!'