Trading Futures

Trading Futures is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. This book, along with a few others in the series, was reprinted in 2011 and is available to purchase as an e-book.

Trading Futures

Author	Lance Parkin
Series	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	55
Subject	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	April 2002
Pages	247
ISBN	0-563-53848-1
Preceded by	Anachrophobia
Followed by	The Book of the Still

Writing and development

The cover and elements of the story are spoofs of the James Bond movies. The novel features a Bond-like character named Jonah Cosgrove, described by the author thus: “Cosgrove is (and I mean ‘is’ here in the very precise, non-trademark violating, sense of the word) the Sean Connery Bond, but one who never retired and who's been a secret agent for fifty years. So he's about eighty, and all the time he's just been piling on more muscles and getting more wrinkled, and ever more set in his ways and bitter and anachronistic. He's Sean Connery in The Rock, as drawn by Frank Miller, and by now he's been promoted to M.”^[1]