![]() ![]() It's not a writing approach that I particularly enjoy, yet Richards pulls it off well and sticks the proverbial landing nicely. This is the second of Justin Richards's many Doctor Who novels that I have read, and in many was it reads like the previous one, Dreams of Empire, in that it starts with disparate threads that are then woven together over the course of the book. The arrive to find to their astonishment that Nyssa is underneath the bandages, having somehow been transported 4,000 years into the past for the nefarious goals of one of the most dangerous foes the Doctor has ever faced. The Doctor and Tegan give chase, only to lose their quarry outside - whereupon they are met by a butler with an invitation to the unwrapping of a mummy. ![]() No sooner does the TARDIS materialize in the Egyptian Room, however, then Nyssa is kidnapped. With Tegan rejoining the Doctor and Nyssa on their travels, the trio travel to the British Museum in 1896. ![]()
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