The novel “The Deviant Strain” by Justin Richards was published for the first time in 2005.

A distress call is picked up by the Tardis and when the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler come to check the Doctor says it’s OK because someone answered. Captain Jack Harkness admits he was the one who answered so the travelers have to go to the signal’s origin, on Earth at the beginning of the 21st century.

The Tardis takes the travelers to the Novrosk peninsula, where there’s an old Soviet naval base, now abandoned. When the Russian special forces arrive, it’s clear that something serious has happened and Colonel Levin who heads the operation explains that a body in really poor conditions was found in the circle of stones existing in the area. Who or what reduced him like that?