The Sontaran Games

Doctorwhobook
title=The Sontaran Games
series=New Series Adventures
featuring=Tenth Doctor


writer=Jacqueline Rayner
publisher=BBC Books
isbn= 1-84607-643-9
set_between=
pages= 112
date=February 26, 2009
preceding= The Story of Martha
following= Prisoner of the Daleks|

"The Sontaran Games" is a BBC Books original novella written by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Tenth Doctor as played by David Tennant. This paperback is part of the Quick Reads Initiative sponsored by the UK government, to encourage literacy. It has a similar look to BBC Books' other new series adventures, except for its much shorter word count, being a paperback and not being numbered as part of the same series. To date it is the one of only four novels based upon the revived series that have not been published in hardcover.

Plot

Every time the lights go out, someone dies...

The TARDIS lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the forthcoming Globe Games. But is one of them driven enough to resort to murder? The Doctor discovers that the students have been hushing up unexplained deaths.

Teaming up with a young swimmer called Emma, the Doctor begins to investigate – but he doesn’t expect to find a squad of Sontarans invading the academy!

As the Sontarans begin their own lethal version of the Globe Games, the Doctor and Emma must find out what’s really going on. But the Doctor is captured and forced to take part in the Sontaran Games. Can even a Time Lord survive this deadly contest?

Continuity

* It is unknown at what point in the Doctor's life this occurs as there are currently three different times when the Tenth Doctor is travelling alone: between The Runaway Bride and Smith & Jones, Voyage of the Damned and Partners in Crime, and most likely, following Journey's End.