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| Author | Paul Leonard |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures |
Release number | 9 |
| Subject | Featuring: Third Doctor Jo,UNIT |
| Set in | Period between Catastrophea andSpeed of Flight[1][2] |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | April 1995 |
| Pages | 279 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20441-7 |
| Preceded by | Time of Your Life |
| Followed by | The Menagerie |
Dancing the Code is an original novel written byPaul Leonard and based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who. It features theThird Doctor,Jo andUNIT. It takes place before theVirgin Missing AdventureSpeed of Flight, also by Paul Leonard.
The Doctor has built a machine designed to predict the future, and it shows the Brigadier murdering him and Jo. Unable to tell when this is destined to occur, the Doctor and Jo decide to stay apart. Jo is sent to the war-ravaged Arab nation of Kebiria, but upon arrival, she is immediately arrested and sent to a brutal political prison. And that's not all: deep in the North African desert, an alien infestation is rapidly growing and threatens to overrun the entire planet.