The prologue and epilogue don't add much to the story and it could easily have done without them, but I suppose they bookend the rest nicely. The Doctor plays a much larger role in this novelisation, and the resemblance between him and the Abbot is a key part of the plot, and even adds some excitement when you're not sure which of the two characters you're seeing. I do appreciate the early pure historical stories in Doctor Who, and this is a great example of one. The author feels knowledgeable in this area and the result is a believable but amazing world of underground tunnels and assassination plots and political/religious tension. I firstly loved the setting, which is Paris in the 1500s. It has admittedly been a little while since I watched the reconstruction of this missing serial, but I barely recognised any of the plot! A lot of the original script was apparently changed for the televised version, and this novel is based on the original scripts.
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