The TARDIS lands in a London of future timesa city of fear, devastation, and holocausta city now ruled by Daleks. The Doctor and his companions meet a team of underground resistance workers, among the few survivors, but after an unsuccessful attack on the Dalek spaceship, they are all forced to flee the capital. A perilous journey through England finally brings them to the secret center of Dalek operationsand the mysterious reason for the Dalek invasion of Earth! William Russell, who played the Doctors companion Ian in the original TV serial, reads Terrance Dicks complete and unabridged novelization, with specially composed music and sound and Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.