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Author | Gary Russell |
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Cover artist | Jon Sullivan |
Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures |
Release number | 6 |
Subject | Featuring: Bernice Summerfield |
Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | October 1997 |
ISBN | 0-426-20513-8 |
Preceded by | Down |
Followed by | Ghost Devices |
Deadfall is an original novel by Gary Russell featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Deadfall was the first of the post-Doctor Who New Adventures not to be centred on Bernice Summerfield. Instead, the main characters are Jason Kane (Benny's ex-husband) and Chris Cwej, both previously introduced in the Doctor Who New Adventures, and Emile Mars-Smith, previously introduced in an earlier post-Doctor Who New Adventure, Beyond the Sun. The Knights of Jeneve, an organisation introduced in the post-Doctor Who New Adventure Dragons' Wrath but related to the Doctor Who organisation UNIT, also feature.
Elements of the plot were re-used from Russell's play of the same name in the fan fiction Audio Visuals series (written under the pseudonym Warren Martyn).