Another Ian Marter effort, and possibly the only Target to feature a Hancock's Half Hour cast member on its cover. Why it doesn't show Salamander and the Doctor is a mystery, surely that's the story's unique selling point.
You know you're in Marterland within a few pages, with bodies being slammed against glass by machine gun bullets. He's concerned we might forget Fariah is black, so this fact is mentioned every time she comes on, and just as an additional precaution she's described as lithe once and cat-like twice. Then she gets gunned down, with red bullet holes appearing across her back in best Marter style.
Fedorin's resolve to assassinate Denes crumbles when his glasses mist up in the steam from the soup tureen. No, really. The business with Astrid demonstrating the fake radiation detector in the shelter appears to be absent.
In the final TARDIS scene, when Salamander loses his grip on the console he appears to hover over the others 'like a bird of prey', being stretched by the temporal forces, before being sucked out and 'instantly disintegrating in the blackness outside'.
The Doctor then gets the TARDIS back under control before the end of the book, which makes it fit nicely with the Web of Fear Target.
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