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	City of Death


	No. 8 of 17 in the BBC prestige novels series << Previous Next >>

Edition: UK (hardback)
Released: May 2015
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 978-1-84990-675-3
Format: hardback
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‘You’re tinkering with time. That’s always a bad idea unless you know what you’re doing.’
The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris — a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all of its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks — not in their wine glasses but in the very fabric of time itself.
Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme which encompasses home-made time machines, the theft of the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth.
Aided by British private detective Duggan, whose speciality is thumping people, the Doctor and Romana must thwart the machinations of the suave, mysterious Count Scarlioni — all twelve of him — if the human race has any chance of survival.
But then, the Doctor’s holidays tend to turn out a bit like this.
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952, and was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read English. As well as writing all the different and conflicting versions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy he has been responsible for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and, with John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff. In 1978-9, he worked as Script Editor on Doctor Who. He wrote three scripts for the programme — ‘The Pirate Planet’, ‘City of Death’ (under the name David Agnew), and ‘Shada’. Douglas Adams died in May 2001.
James Goss is the author of two Doctor Who novels: The Blood Cell and Dead of Winter, as well as Summer Falls (on behalf of Amy Pond). He is also the co-author, with Steve Tribe, of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, The Dalek Handbook and Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects. While at the BBC James produced an adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who story, and Dirk is his award-winning stage adaptation of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. His Doctor Who audiobook Dead Air won Best Audiobook 2010 and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards.

Edition: US (hardback)
Released: October 2015
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 978-0-425-28390-5
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Edition: Italy (paperback)
Title: La Città della Morte
Released: October 2015
Publisher: Mondadori
ISBN: 978-88-04-65614-2
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Il Doctor Who porta la sua Romana in vacanza a Parigi: una città che è come un buon vino, possiede un carattere particolare, uno stile proprio, tutto da assaporare. Certo, come un buon vino, occorre sceglierlo di un’annata memorabile. Peccato però che il 1979, l’anno scelto, dal TARDIS, sia più che altro un’annata... da vino da tavola! Pazienza. D’altro canto il Dottore e Romana avranno poco tempo da dedicare alle attività ricreative. I Signori del Tempo, infatti, intessono un’audace trama che comprende macchine del tempo fai-da-te, il furto della Monna Lisa, la rinascita dei terribili Jagaroth, nonché la comparsa (e probabilmente anche la scomparsa) della vita sulla Terra. Le speranze di sopravvivenza della specie umana sono nelle mani del Dottore e di Romana, aiutati dal detective inglese Duggan. Riusciranno a sventare i piani dell’affascinante, misterioso conte Scarlioni? Basato sullo scritto originale di Douglas Adams, La città della morte si ispira all’omonima microserie dello sceneggiato “Doctor Who”, andata in onda per la prima volta nell’autunno 1979: uno degli episodi più amati di sempre del longevo serial con oltre sedici milioni di spettatori.

Edition: Brazil (paperback)
Title: Cidade da Morte
Released: November 2015
Publisher: Suma de Letras
ISBN: 978-85-8105-313-4
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Paris, 1979. O Doutor leva Romana para um dia de folga, mas, enquanto almoçam em um dos charmosos cafés da cidade, o tempo parece saltar, deslizando alguns segundos para trás. Intrigado, o Doutor não demora a identificar uma rachadura no espaco-tempo.
Em outro canto da capital francesa, o conde Scarlioni patrocina perigosas - E caríssimas - experiências com o tempo. Para isso, decide roubar a Mona Lisa e revendê-la. Um plano ousado, ainda mais quando os Senhores do Tempo descobrem que ele tem não apenas uma, mas sete Mona Lisas escondidas no porão: e todas são verdadeiras.
Com a ajuda do detetive Duggan, especialista em esmurrar pessoas, o Doutor e sua companion precisam deter os planos do elegante e misterioso conde Scarlioni - e das onze versões dele -, para que a humanidade tenha chance de sobreviver.
Baseado no roteiro original de Douglas Adams, Cidade da morte é o episódio de Doctor Who mais assistido de todos os tempos. Uma aventura do Quarto Doutor e sua companion Romana, cheia de humor, reviravoltas, e claro, planos mirabolantes para salvar o universo.

Edition: Germany (paperback)
Title: Die Stadt des Todes
Released: November 2015
Publisher: Cross Cult
ISBN: 978-3-86425-793-3
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Edition: Hungary (paperback)
Title: A Halál Városa
Released: November 2015
Publisher: Gabo
ISBN: 978-963-406-161-8
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Edition: UK (paperback)
Released: February 2016
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 978-1-84990-676-0
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‘You’re tinkering with time. That’s always a bad idea unless you know what you’re doing.’
The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris — a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks in the very fabric of time itself.
Soon the Time Lords are embroiled in an audacious alien scheme involving home-made time machines, the Mona Lisa, the resurrection of the much-feared Jagaroth race, and the beginning (and quite possibly the end) of all life on Earth.
But then, the Doctor’s holidays tend to turn out a bit like this.
‘An elegant classy novel’ Doctor Who Magazine
‘It’s a beautiful collaboration, a work of love, and a celebration of the very best of Doctor Who that’s luminous with joy’ CultBox

Edition: US (paperback)
Released: August 2016
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 978-0-425-28391-2
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Edition: Czech Republic (hardback)
Title: Město Smrti
Released: October 2016
Publisher: Argo
ISBN: 978-80-257-1957-2
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Edition: Turkey (paperback)
Title: Ölüm Şehri
Released: December 2016
Publisher: Ithaki Yayinlari
ISBN: 978-605-375-617-0
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Edition: China (paperback)
Released: April 2017
Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
ISBN: 978-7-5327-7388-6
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Edition: Russia (hardback)
Title: Доктор Кто. Город смерти
Released: February 2018
Publisher: AST
ISBN: 978-5-17-102503-8
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Edition: UK (abridged paperback)
Released: April 2018
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 978-1-78594-327-0
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The key to Earth’s destruction lies buried in its past.
Visiting Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana’s hopes for a holiday are soon shattered by armed thugs, a suave and dangerous Count, a plot to steal the Mona Lisa and a world-threatening experiment with time.
Teaming up with a British detective, the Time Lords discover that a ruthless alien plot hatched in Earth’s pre-history has reached its final stage. If Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, cannot be stopped then the human race is history, along with all life on Earth...
This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 29 September — 20 October 1979.
Feturing the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker with his companion Romana


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