A review by squidbag
Doctor Who: Amorality Tale: The History Collection by David Bishop

3.0

Unrelentingly bleak, and ratchets the tension using the currency of death, popular from this era of the doctor. The crime boss character, Tommy Ramsey, is a pretty standard hard man of British crime fiction, but the book doesn't really get super dark until the less terrestrial threats make themselves known, rendering Ramsey sympathetic by comparison. This is the point at which the book becomes savage in away I've not seen a lot of in Doctor Who, books or TV. At least the Daleks are clean and clinical. This Third Doctor adventure comes to a close with a kind of "neat bow" on top, but not until after the deaths of most of the secondary cast and a legacy of death and havoc are established.