The Feast of the Drowned is a BBC Books original novel written by Stephen Cole and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Rose is comforting her friend Keisha, whose brother Jay is missing in action after the sinking of HMS Ascendant, which has just been towed up the Thames in pieces.
Rose drags the Doctor along, and he asks what Jay did on the ship, before deciding to go out for chips (and a newspaper to wrap them in).
They find that the ship has been brought to Stanchion House, and that people are going missing near the part of the Thames where it is located.
The Doctor swipes a pass from one of the soldiers, and tells Rose and Mickey to stay with Anne and not to let her out of their sight.
As Rose and Mickey try to decide where to take Anne, they are approached by an old man in full naval uniform wearing dark glasses and a scarf around his neck, who introduces himself as Rear Admiral John Crayshaw.
Meanwhile, the Doctor goes to Stanchion House, and introduces himself as 'Sir John Smith, Scientific Advisor to the Admiralty' with his psychic paper.
He talks to Vida Swann for a minute before she mentions that her PC had told her Sergeant Jodie North had come in, and that she had alerted security when she saw him instead.
The corridor opens into a large, dark, circular chamber with a very high ceiling and a huge filthy pool in the centre of the floor.
The Doctor takes a polythene bag from his pocket and fills it with water from the pool, and then starts to climb the ladder as he hears the doors opening behind him.
The ladder is damp, as if someone sopping wet had climbed up it ahead of him, and didn't dry before reaching the top.
There is a barrier across the top of the chamber, but the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the inspection hatch, which has blood on it.
When it turns, the Doctor sees a young man with bloody welts on his face and neck, and eyes like huge pearls.
Out of the water appears a pirate and a U-boat captain, who sweeps Jay back the way he'd come and vanishes.
Vida says they were studying water taken from the area where the Ascendant sank, and found no sign of tracers, but there were salts and proteins unlike anything previously discovered.
The Doctor asks Mickey and Vida to go through the naval personnel records and see if the crew of the Ascendant had anything in common.
While going through the computer files, Mickey looks up Commodore Powers (Crayshaw's boss), and discovers that he was on a ship that sank in the North Sea three years ago.
He smells seawater, and then the water in the sink jumps out and attacks him, covering his face, but he manages to escape.
Mickey and the Doctor go to the Aldgate tube station, to reach a conduit full of phone lines, which passes within a few inches of the decontamination chamber.
He tells Mickey that the tunnel is probably one of the safest places to be, as there aren't many people around to filch water from, so no image of Rose to haunt them.
Crayshaw takes Vida to an empty Stanchion House in the morning, to arrange a meeting with Kelper, but he is already there.
He sends Mickey and Vida to find the crates that were on the Ascendant and dump them into the river, while he creates a distraction.
An abridged audio book version of The Feast of the Drowned, read by David Tennant, was released in July 2006 by BBC Audiobooks.
The audio book version was given away free in two parts with two consecutive issues of Radio Times in December 2006 and January 2007.