Best Seller (Short Trips: Monsters)

Prose  In an unexpected move, here's Big Finish with a story promoting the piracy of copyrighted material, especially if it has a limited print run and of high demand.  In a Short Trips anthology.  Is this what writers Ian Mond and Danny Oz intended?  Either way, there's a lot going on in Best Seller, from a group of literary fiction readers plotting to assassinate a popular fiction author, to the riotous destruction of a Melbourne bookshop which actually exists in the real world (and happens to be situated in somewhere called Fitzroy), to a conclusion which references the impending return of the television series (this was published in 2004).  In the midst of all that Charley does something immensely out of character (although there is a handwavy explanation) and the Doctor manages to solve the issue in a way which doesn't result in the genocide of an alien species for once (despite them causing the death of an old friend).

Placement:  In between With Charley Seasons One and Two.

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