A new series of novels revealing the untold story of iconic Doctor Who character Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart will launch next year.

Candy Jar Books’ fully licensed Lethbridge-Stewart series will be set shortly after 1968’s ‘The Web of Fear’.

The first series consists of ‘The Forgotten Son’ by Andy Frankham-Allen, ‘Horror of Det-Sen’ by Lance Parkin, ‘The Schizoid Earth’ by David A McIntee and ‘Mutually Assured Domination’ by Nick Walters.

Andy Frankham-Allen commented said: “It’s an insane privilege and responsibility to put this series together, to reveal the real story behind such a legend of Doctor Who.”

Lance Parkin added: “Lethbridge-Stewart was always a steady presence in the Doctor’s life. Even in ‘The Web of Fear’, he instinctively trusted the Doctor from almost the moment he met him. I wrote for the character in ‘The Dying Days’, and that was the version of the Brigadier we all think of now, I think, an old soldier, semi-retired, seen it all. It’s been interesting writing for a younger, hungrier Lethbridge-Stewart – not even a Brigadier at this point in his life. It’s also been nice writing a story that’s set in the aftermath of ‘The Web of Fear’, with Lethbridge-Stewart only just starting to realise that the Earth’s facing a whole new type of enemy.”

Lethbridge-Stewart will launch on 22 February 2015, the fourth anniversary of the death of Nicholas Courtney, the actor behind the Brigadier.

Doctor Who returns later this month with ‘Last Christmas’.

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