SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Target.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrated covers. No bumps. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Very light crease to back cover. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No Annotations or Inscriptions, some marks to fore-edge. Uniform paper colouration throughout. ACC* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 140 pp. text. * Product Description:- Stepping out of the Tardis into Victorian London, Leela and The Doctor are confronted by menacing, diabolical horrors shrouded within the swirling London fog ? a man?s death cry, an attack by Chinese Tong hatchet men, giant rats roaming the sewers, young women mysteriously disappearing? The Doctor must use his skill, energy and intelligence to escape the talons of Weng-Chiang.* This is a NEAR GOOD copy with minimal shelf wear but reduced by tanning to ACCEPTABLE.*

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In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny.July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag.Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to the political power she craves; while a man who has great power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and everyone who stands in his way.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 953
Title: Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
Author: Dicks., Terrance
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used - ACC/VG/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 3rd, Reprint,
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0426119738
ISBN 13: 9780426119739
Publisher: Target (W.H.Allen)
Place of Publication: London Uk 140
This edition first published: February 1986

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