An Army of Shadows (short story)

An Army of Shadows was a piece of prose fiction published in DWMS Winter 1991. It gave a fictional history of UNIT in the form of a Metropolitan report on the organisation, including several accounts of the reporter's own encounters with them.
Not content to present a litany of references to preexisting UNIT television stories (though it did contain its fair share of nods to Third Doctor and Fourth Doctor serials), the content of this in-universe biography provided a wealth of new information about UNIT, including a brief appearance by a new incarnation of the Doctor.
== Plot ==
=== An Army of Shadows ===
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=== Yates Speaks Out ===
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=== Exposed: The Day of the Daleks ===
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== Characters ==
* Andrew Dylan
* Mary Gately
* Winifred Bambera
* Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
* Liz Shaw
* Professor Rachel Jensen
* Jo Jones
* Mike Yates
* Francis Gardner
* Kevin W. Parker
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Individuals ===
* UNIT have been associated with eight or nine different "Doctor John Smiths" since its formation, including a man with a large, bushy beard.
* Jo Jones is standing as a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party.
== Story notes ==
* The table of contents lists this story in three parts:
** An Army of Shadows
** Yates Speaks Out
** Exposed: The Day of the Daleks
* The titles are different on the actual pages:
** UNIT Exposed
** The Alien Cover-up
** Alien Invasion: The Day of the Daleks
== Continuity ==
* UNIT currently operates in Maiden's Point. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
* John Wakefield wrote a satirical book (TV: The Ambassadors of Death) called A Yeti in Tooting Bec. (TV: The Web of Fear)
* "Victor Magister" was apprehended in 1976. (COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask)
* Kevin W. Parker provides a short inset on Sarah Jane Smith, (PROSE: The Roving Reporter) which mentions her Doctor series (PROSE: Moving On) and Fighting for Humankind. (PROSE: The Roving Reporter; TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
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