System Shock (novel) explained

System Shock
Author:Justin Richards
Series:Doctor Who book:
Virgin Missing Adventures
Release Number:11
Subject:Featuring:
Fourth Doctor
Sarah, Harry
Set In:Period between
The Seeds of Doom and The Masque of Mandragora
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:Virgin Books
Pages:309
Isbn:0-426-20445-X
Preceded By:The Menagerie
Followed By:The Sorcerer's Apprentice

System Shock is an original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry and is followed by the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock, also by Richards.

Plot

It is 1998, and the information age is about to take off. However, mysterious events are plaguing London. A prominent spy is killed. A hostage situation is bizarrely resolved. The Doctor receives a computer disc from a dead man. And to top it all off, it seems that an alien race is planning a takeover using Earth's ever expanding computer technology.