The Well-Mannered War was the
third part of my Fourth Doctor trilogy for Virgin's Missing
Adventures.
It was written against the background of Virgin losing the
Who license; I think we always knew that it would get a
smaller print run than normal because legally Virgin wouldn't
be able to sell any copies to the shops after May 1996. But I
had no idea it would end up selling for such silly amounts on
e-Bay. If I had, I would have kept a few more copies.
The genesis of The Well-Mannered War was a combination of
things. I knew it was the last Virgin Missing Adventure; I
knew it was the last Who book I'd do for a while at least
because I'd started doing TV; and I knew there was going to be
a general election in May 1997 when the book was going to be
published.
