Deceit

Deceit

“Take Arcadia apart if you have to.”

The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Second Dalek War is drawing to an untidy close. Earth’s office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.

Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.

A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, The Doctor refuses to listen to them.

Nothing is what it seems to be.

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• Deceit is the thirteenth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It was written by Peter Darvill-Evans and released in 1993.
  
• Abslom Daak is a clone, “not very good one”, at that.
  
• Ace thinks about having sex with Daak.
  
• The Dalekplague used during the 22nd century Dalek invasion of Earth is mentioned in passing.
  
• The TARDIS is cured of the infection it reacquired in Tír na n-Óg.
  
• The Doctor ejected the zero room from the TARDIS, to destroy Pool.
  
• Ace is three years older than when she left The Doctor on Heaven.
  
• Bernice Summerfield is haunted by the destruction of the Seven Planets.