Accused of ‘crimes against the inviolate laws of evolution’, the Doctor is normally on trial for his life with this fascinating novelisation carrying on the ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ story arc. The sinister prosecutor, the Valeyard, presents the Large Council of Time Lords with the next piece of proof against the physician: a dramatic adventure on earth Thoros-Beta which resulted in the renegade Time Lord’s summons towards the Court of Enquiry. But mainly because the Doctor watches the moments for the Matrix he is puzzled with what he views – his behaviour is not mainly because he remembers. Only one thing is certain: on the evidence from the Matrix the physician is surely guilty as billed… Colin Baker, who starred as the 6th Doctor in Doctor Who, reads Philip Martin’s complete and unabridged novelisation, 1st published by Target Books in 1989.