October 1973. UNIT is now settled in its role, having defeated the resurrected Tobias Vaughn back in July, and overcome several other threats in the intervening months. But not everyone is satisfied. Packer remains at large, occupying an unidentified body. Anne Travers wants to step aside as UNIT’s interim scientific advisor. And Human Rights activists are unhappy with the UN’s wavering stance regarding the part-converted ex-employees of International Electromatics. Anne has been working on a potential solution. But then a horrific murder throws everything into confusion.Meanwhile a convalescent Professor Watkins has been headhunted in Dorset, and the top-secret UN holding facility on the South Downs has been compromised.Who are UNIT’s adversaries this time around, and why do they always seem to be one step ahead? What is the significance of the very first meeting between Captain Turner and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart? And where does an ex-UNIT mole fit into it all?Anne Travers won’t leave her post until she has closure. Isobel Watkins should be in Germany on a photoshoot. Instead, she finds herself pushed to the very end of her tether, questioning the loyalties of those closest to her.With UNIT’s forces split between London, Swanage and Maudlin, events seem to be rushing towards a disastrous and unavoidable climax as once again Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and his team finds itself dealing with the malevolent shadow of Tobias Vaughn and International Electromatics. And not everyone will walk away this time.Featuring the UNIT team and other characters from The Invasion and The Web of Fear, The Vaughn Supremacy continues the story from The Invasion and The Vaughn Identity, closing the first series of Candy Jar’s UNIT range of novels.
