The novel “The Art of Destruction” by Stephen Cole was published for the first time in 2006.

The TARDIS brings the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler to Chad in 2118, near a volcano. There, a agricultural team that is a bit pecualiar is trying to develop a fungus that can grow in the dark caves of the area feeding off anything that can be found there and at the same time has a high nutritional value.

The Doctor has detected alien signals in the area, where apparently only human activities are in place. Things change when one of the agriculture team members is infected with a substance that turns him into a kind of golem. The events become more and more chaotic and the Doctor must figure out what’s behind it before the danger extends well beyond the area.