Dead Man's Pulse

The Master is in hiding from the Time War, and since he knows his days are numbered, why not revel in a few new forms of wickedness?

Whether at a futuristic nursing home or in a fleeing scavenger ship, on a darkness-shrouded planet or guesting in the bright lights of a TV studio, there's an evil deed for every occasion...

13.1 The Unstately Home by Alison Winter
The super-rich elite residents of Aurora Mansions, a high-tech luxury retirement village and nursing home, have every imaginable comfort and amenity in their golden years. But the Master, posing as a cognitive hypnotherapist, is keen to demonstrate that no amount of money can provide sanctuary from the troubled mind... especially when he's inside it.

13.2 Dead Man's Pulse by Mark Bowsher
The Master is dead. For now, at least. But even a dead Time Lord is valuable during a Time War and when a gang of scavengers steal the Master's body, their ship is targeted by a psychological energy weapon. They are forced to revive the Master to gain his help, but his cooperation comes at a high price...

13.3 The Devil in the Detail by David K Barnes
On a colony world in perpetual night, young scientist Lyle Godwin is determined to give power back to the people. He's beating the energy companies at their own game - but why does the Master want to help him do it? The devil... is in the detail.

13.4 In His Anecdotage by Matthew Sweet
The Master is publishing his memoirs - You Don't Know Jackanapes - in which he offers himself as a reformed character and spills secrets from the UNIT years. Talking to veteran investigative journalist Jeannie Keen, she questions him about government cover-ups, and he tells her, out of the blue, that he has seen a UNIT file showing she has a twin sister living in a nursing home in Wexcliffe-on-Sea. Only it's not a nursing home, it's a UNIT safe house.

The Master offers to team up with Jeannie, apparently interested in helping her with the story. But what is the secret of Ashburton Lodge? And what's behind the Master's most unreliable of memoirs?

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