The place is Earth. The time is the near future - all too near.

Industrial development has accelerated out of all control, spawning dangerous new technologies and laying the planet to waste. While the inner cities collapse in guerilla warfare, a dark age of superstition dawns.

As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a last desperate effort - not to save humankind, but to buy themselves immortality in a poisoned world.

If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them.

From London to New York to Turkey, Ace follows the Doctor as he prepares, finally, to strike back.

China, 1800, and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive at the English Trade Concession in Canton.

A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and Zoe into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering.

Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house.

The spirits of the past have returned, and when the Doctor discovers that the house and surrounds have literally been taken out of space and time, he realises that their attacker may not be all they seem.

Adolescence is a difficult time.  Especially when you have the power to rule the world.

Creed is just an ordinary guy - as ordinary as you can be when you're a secret agent working for the government. But his family is another matter.  His youngest child seems able to read his mind.  His oldest boy, ricky, may posssess a stranger and far more frightening power.  And others seem interested in his 'gifted' children - sinister forces who see them as a resource to be exploited.

Around the world, the Doctor's companions have been put in place, ready to act when the time is right.  Old friends and enemies are gathering for a final confrontation that will shape the future of the globe - and the evolution of mankind.

Warchild is the shattering conclusion to the dark trilogy which began with Warhead and continued in Warlock.

Full-length, original novels based on the longest-running science fiction television series of all time, BBC's Doctor Who.  The New Adventures take the TARDIS into previously unexplored realms of space and time.

Andrew Cartmell was script editor of the Doctor Who television series.  He has also script edited Casualty for the BBC and written Judge Dredd for Fleetway.  He is currently working on his million dollar best-seller.  Warchild is his third book in the New Adventures series.

It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.

There's a strange new drug on the street. It's called warlock and some people say it's the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.

Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.

This disturbing sequel to Warhead moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.

Full-length, original novels based on the longest running science-fiction television series of all time, the BBC's Doctor Who.  The New Adventures take the TARDIS into previously unexplored realms of space and time.

Andrew Cartmel was script editor of the Doctor Who television series from 1987 to 1989 before moving on to edit Casualty.  He has written comic strips for Marvel UK and is currently writing Judge Dredd for Fleetway.  This is his second book in the New Adventures series.