Author James Goss brings us another adaptation of a Doctor Who script by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) from a story by David Fisher. The Doctor and Romana are in Paris when they begin to feel time ripples. It starts with an artist drawing a picture of Romana who then disregards it and throws it away but she picks it up and sees that instead of a face the artist has drawn a clock with a crack in it. They then heard toward the Louvre where the Doctor looks at the current display of the Mona Lisa and he sees something that the general audience doesn't and tries to warn them that this is not the original. It is at this time that a Countess who is planning on stealing the painting sees this going on but she doesn't realize that the Doctor has spotted her. He pulls a slight of hand and takes her bracelet off of her. As this is going on the event that had started everything off with the warp explosion of an alien ship at the dawn of life on Earth fragments the creature on that ship into twelve parts. It is the final part in the later half of the twentieth century that holds the promise of putting himself back together. This is a great adaptation of Douglas Adams script and there are parts of the book that the author makes you think that Douglas wrote it. I highly recommend this book to all Doctor Who and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fans.
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