1880s Franse: the corrupt world of the Thirs Republic. A clandestine brotherhoos is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a race of beings seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.

Chris finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; Roz follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and the Doctor befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent Paris from being utterly destroyed.

SIMON BUCHER-JONES is yet another civil servant with a long-standing love of SF, fantasy and DOCTOR WHO. He currently pretends to know about computers for the Home Office, but would rather you all bought hs book.