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The Deviant Strain
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC New Series Adventures
Release Number:	4
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Companions:	Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
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Author:	Justin Richards
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	September 2005
Format:	Hardcover book 253 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-48637-6
Previous Story:	Winner Takes All
Following Story:	Only Human

Publisher's Summary

The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten.

Until the Russian Special Forces arrive -- and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing....

Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain...

Characters

• The Doctor
• Rose Tyler
• Jack Harkness
• Pavel Vahlen
• Valeria Mamentova
• Grodny
• Oleg Levin
• Ilya Sergeyev
• Krylek
• Sofia Barinska
• Igor Klebanov
• Alex Minin
• Boris Brodsky
• Catherine Kornilova
• Nikolai Stresnev
• Georgi Zinoviev
• Razul

References

• The crashed spaceship comes from an obscure group or race called the Arcane Collegiate.

Notes

• The "Deviant Strain" is also the name commonly applied to the "Doctor Who" font, which has been seen many times in spinoff material in the revived series, including the cover of the revived series novels.

Continuity

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Timeline

• The Deviant Strain occurs after: DW: The Doctor Dances
• The Deviant Strain occurs before: NSA: Only Human

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of The Deviant Strain
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for The Deviant Strain