If I remember the book correctly, what amused me most was how closely — in the best traditions of the Hinchcliffe era — much of the action seemed very much in ‘hommage’ to an underlying film source: in this case the 1982 SAS-storm-the-Embassy pic _”Who Dares Wins”_, to the extent IIRC of there even being walk-on mentions of a Sergeant Lewis and a Sergeant Collins.
I also remember thinking that a number of the Doctor scenes seemed patterned /very/ closely on bits from TV stories of the era: Android Invasion, Terror of the Zygons, etc.
If I remember the book correctly, what amused me most was how closely — in the best traditions of the Hinchcliffe era — much of the action seemed very much in ‘hommage’ to an underlying film source: in this case the 1982 SAS-storm-the-Embassy pic _”Who Dares Wins”_, to the extent IIRC of there even being walk-on mentions of a Sergeant Lewis and a Sergeant Collins.
I also remember thinking that a number of the Doctor scenes seemed patterned /very/ closely on bits from TV stories of the era: Android Invasion, Terror of the Zygons, etc.
But then it was one of his first books.