BASIC PLOT
The Doctor and Ace land in London, 1951 to discover the Nazis won the second World War and have occupied England. The Doctor impersonates an inspector in order to discover the truth, but is discovered by the evil Lt Hemmings of the Britisher Freikorps. The Doctor and Ace then travel back to the divergence to discover the Timewyrm has both possessed and become trapped in Hitler's mind. But things get even worse when they discover a very old enemy lurking in the same time zone...

DOCTOR
Seventh.

COMPANIONS
Ace.

MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT
The Festival of Britain, 1951, altered Earth, (page 1).

An alleyway in Germany, 1923 (page 101)

A Nuremberg rally, Germany, 1939 (page 110).

A mountain ledge, Felsennest, May 1940 (page 217).

The Festival of Britain, 1951, unaltered Earth, (page 231).

PREPARATORY READING
This is a sequel to The War Games.

CONTINUITY REFERENCES
Pg 6 "There was one just like it in Commander Millington's office in the Naval Base" The Curse of Fenric.

Pg 9 "Well there was that meddling Monk of course" The Time Meddler.

Pg 30 "Put that thing away, this isn't the OK Corral" The Gunfighters.

Pg 39 "Herr Doktor Johann Schmidt" The Doctor sometimes goes undercover as Doctor John Smith, the first instance in "The Wheel in Space". This is merely the name's German homonym.

Pg 46 "We follow the time-path indicator here" Timewyrm: Genesys.

Pg 48 "Sleep is for tortoises." The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Pg 49 "Ace was being chased down endless metal corridors by a huge black swastika-wearing Dalek." The first mention of Daleks in the New Adventures, unusual because the editors technically didn't have the right to include any in the series. The Daleks were originally Terry Nation's response to the Nazis, making Ace's dream quite appropriate. There's a similar linking in Just War.

Pg 66 "The Doctor began summoning up certain mind-protection techniques he'd learned as a young man on Gallifrey from a hermit who lived on top of a mountain. He remembered [...] a daisy that seemed to hold the secret to existence." K'Anpo Rinpoche (Planet of the Spiders), The Time Monster.

Pg 86 "I've got some Sisterhood salve back in the TARDIS somewhere" The Sisterhood of Karn manufactures a rejuvenating salve useful for traumatic regenerations in Time Lords.

Pg 89 "As a matter of fact, I was once in grave danger of being washed down the plughole." Planet of Giants.

Pg 90 "The Doctor slipped behind the struggling guard, draped an affectionate arm around his shoulders, and closed powerful fingers on a pressure-point." The Doctor also does this in Battlefield and Survival.

"The Venusian nerve pinch induces short term amnesia" The 3rd Doctor favoured Venusian martial arts.

Pg 99 "Dr Solon's Special Morbius Lotion." The Brain of Morbius.

Pg 100 "You didn't take O-level Cheetah either." Survival.

Pg 117 The Doctor uses a Stattenheim remote control to conceal the TARDIS. First heard of in The Mark of the Rani, the Rani had remote control of her TARDIS. The 2nd Doctor obtained one in The Two Doctors, something of a mystery as the 6th Doctor didn't have one.

Pg 167 "He was engaged in a heated argument with President Borusa and Lady Flavia" Borusa first appeared in The Deadly Assassin. Chancellor Flavia first appeared in The Five Doctors.

Pg 180 "What had he done with his sonic screwdriver?" The sonic screwdriver's first appearance was in Fury from the Deep and despite being destroyed in The Visitation returns in the NAs and is subsequently seen again in the telemovie.

"Eventually the Doctor came up with a Gallifreyan Army Knife of the kind issued to the Capitol Guard. On it was engraved 'Property of Castellan Spandrell.'" The Gallifreyan Army Knife was invented here, but is seen later in other Terrance Dicks novels. Spandrell appeared in The Deadly Assassin.

Pg 186 "His own third regeneration had been caused by a massive dose of radiation." Planet of the Spiders.

"The regeneration aborted." Although invented here, aborted regenerations are mentioned in other Terrance Dicks' novels, including Warmonger.

Pg 187 "So he had a quiet word with his friends in the Celestial Intervention Agency" First mentioned in The Deadly Assassin.

"He tried for immortality as well, and got forced into permanent retirement." The Five Doctors.

Pg 194 "You remember my SIDRATS, Doctor?" The War Games.

OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES
The Timewyrm.

Kreigsleiter, aka The War Chief.

The War Lords.

NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES
Harry Goldstein.

Lt Anthony Hemmings, who reappears in Timewyrm: Revelation and Happy Endings. His first name is given on page 15; it changes between this and Revelation, but the error is rectified in Happy Endings.

Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Goebbels.

CONTINUITY COCK-UPS

1. Pg 1 "Prologue: 25000 BC" According to dating of the Epic of Gilgamesh this figure is too early by a factor of ten.
2. Pg 31 "The box simply repelled, rejected paint." This contradicts The Happiness Patrol.

PLUGGING THE HOLES [Fan-wank theorizing of how to fix continuity cock-ups]

1. The Timewyrm might have been floating in the Vortex for some considerable time.
2. The Doctor might have reconfigured the TARDIS to reject paint after The Happiness Patrol.

FEATURED ALIEN RACES
The Timewyrm.

The War Lords.

FEATURED LOCATIONS
The Festival of Britain, 1951, altered Earth.

Germany, 1923.

Germany, 1939.

Felsennest, May 1940.

The Festival of Britain, 1951, unaltered Earth.

IN SUMMARY - Robert Smith?
This is Terrance Dicks' tour de force of a novel. Every step is well judged, leading us around on a fantastic tale of intrigue, history and time manipulation that doesn't falter for a second. The Doctor is hugely on form, integrating himself into Nazi society by simple force of will and even the sequelitis works well, partly because this is the first such attempt and partly because it's kept to the end anyway. Timewyrm: Exodus deserves every bit of praise it ever received, plus more. This is where the NAs truly began and they did so in considerable style.