 | Edition: | UK (1st paperback) | | | Released: | April 1999
| | | Publisher: | BBC Books | | | ISBN: | 0-563-55573-4 | | | Format: | paperback | | | Owned: | | | | Buy: |    |
Cover blurb:
Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place... The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things — a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career... Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop. And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players — mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them — before it’s too late? Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri, this adventure takes place between the TV stories The Mark of the Rani and The Two Doctors. | 
