It's disappointing that the writers originally involved with the show seem least able to adapt to this format. But, for some reason, it also seems that nobody can write a good Third Doctor book. Nobody seems to have a handle on the character, or the ability to balance the camp without adding terrible humor. ( )

The Third Doctor with Sarah Jane Smith and the Brigadier investigate the cult of Skang after some mysterious deaths occur.
The plot is thin and the characters are even thinner, Sarah comes across as both incredibly stupid and equally privileged.

re-read 4/18/2023 ( )

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2293711.html

Barry Letts' last novel, published in 2005 just after New Who began, but taking the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and the Brigadier to investigate a strange cult based around a mind-altering drug and rescuing Sarah's gormless assistant Jeremy (from The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space). It's not great, to be honest; the story rambles and characters make rather arbitrarily stupid decisions in order to prolong the plot. But we should take it as what it is, a farewell note to the series from one of its veteran producers. ( )