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| Author | Lance Parkin |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 55 |
| Subject | Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz andAnji |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | April 2002 |
| Pages | 247 |
| ISBN | 0-563-53848-1 |
| Preceded by | Anachrophobia |
| Followed by | The Book of the Still |
Trading Futures is aBBC Books original novel written byLance Parkin and based on the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who. It features theEighth Doctor,Fitz andAnji. This book, along with a few others in the series, was reprinted in 2011 and is available to purchase as an e-book.
The cover and elements of the story are spoofs of theJames Bond franchise. The novel features a Bond-like character named Jonah Cosgrove, described by the author thus: "Cosgrove is (and I mean 'is' here in the very precise, non-trademark violating, sense of the word) theSean Connery Bond, but one who never retired and who's been a secret agent for fifty years. So he's about eighty, and all the time he's just been piling on more muscles and getting more wrinkled, and ever more set in his ways and bitter and anachronistic. He's Sean Connery inThe Rock, as drawn byFrank Miller, and by now he's been promoted toM."[1]