Blood Wolf

Shockers Series

by John Peel

After the murder of his father, King Kardak, Numin flees assassins hired by his own brother, but first he must make his way across the Broken Mountains, a perilous passage stalked by mysterious wolves.

Genres: Fantasy

6 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

John Peel is the author of Doctor Who books and comic strips. Notably, he wrote the first original Doctor Who novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, to launch the Virgin New Adventures line. In the early 1990s he was commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations of several key Terry Nation Dalek stories of the 1960s after the rights were finally worked out. He later wrote several more original Daleks novels.

He has the distinction of being one of only three authors credited on a Target novelisation who had not either written a story for the TV series or been a part of the production team (the others were Nigel Robinson and Alison Bingeman).

Outside of Doctor Who, Peel has also written novels for the Star Trek franchise. Under the pseudonym "John Vincent", he wrote novelisations based upon episodes of the 1990s TV series James Bond Jr..

Reviews

[BRANDON · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a fantasy story it was pretty good, as a horror story it fell a little short. It's always a little shocking to pick up a book expecting horror only to find out it's a fantasy masquerading as horror. Regardless, it wasn't a bad, it actually gave me some hope that short, low stakes fantasy stories can work and might actually get published (at least they did in the nineties.)

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book wasn't to bad for a short book. The plot took a few interesting twists and had a very unexpected ending.