Players (Dicks novel)

Players
AuthorTerrance Dicks
SeriesDoctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures
Release number
21
SubjectFeaturing:
Sixth Doctor, Second Doctor
Peri
PublisherBBC Books
Publication date
26 April 1999
Pages251
ISBN0-563-55573-4
Preceded byDeep Blue 
Followed byMillennium Shock 

Players is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri meeting Winston Churchill during the Boer War and prior to the abdication of the would-be king Edward VIII. Flashbacks scenes feature the Second Doctor meeting Winston Churchill in 1915 during the First World War, these sequences serving as a partial prequel to Dick's subsequent novel World Game, which is set during Season 6B.