The Taking of Planet 5

Written by Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, The Taking of Planet 5 is the 28th book released by the BBC featuring the eighth incarnation of The Doctor, It is notable for being the only War in Heaven focused novel to not feature Faction Paradox.

Blurb
Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe.

Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.

Outside the ordered universe, things move.

They’re hungry.

And something has given them the scent of our space/time.

Plot Synopsis
The Doctor becomes involved, once again, in the looming future war. Uncovering a mystery associated with the Antarctic, the Doctor is separated from his companion.

The Doctor encounters various agents of Gallifrey who regard him, at best, as a liabilty or worse an enemy agent and a monster capable of consuming the fundamental basis of intelligence.

Compassion faces agents of the Celestis.

Fitz Kreiner just tries to survive millions of years before he was born, surrounded by madness.

The survival of every idea from the most complex equation to the ability to remember how to breath rests upon the legacy of the Doctor and his relationship with his TARDIS...