Shadow
a short story in Operation Wildcat
That top fellow Tim Gambrell asked me if I'd like to do a short story for this anthology. I knew straight away I wanted to do a story about Benton. This was set when he was newly recruited to UNIT, and so I could play with that, he was young and inexperienced and I knew I wanted something that showed him to be very capable. Benton was often played for laughs on TV but he wouldn't have been so completely trusted by the Brigadier and the Doctor if he hadn't been a very useful, very capable soldier, and I wanted to show that. I also wanted a story that was a bit bittersweet and downbeat at the end... and so we have this story, Shadow.
