Christopher Bulis’s Third Doctor novel The Eye of the Giant is a classic book, one of the best of all the Missing Adventure novels.  It features the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, and a not-yet-promoted Sergeant Yates.  All of them are written very well, each very much in the spirit of how they were in the TV series.  Liz Shaw and Mike Yates are characterized exceptionally well.  There are also some fine guest characters in the story.  Nancy Grover is a very good villain, obsessed with her own desire for fame and willing to crush anyone who gets in her way.  Her stepdaughter Amelia Grover is a wonderful heroine.  The reader is so very happy at the end of the book when we learn what has happened to her as a result of the action that she takes in saving the world.  Amanda’s father is a very good character too.  Many of the minor characters are also very well written.  This is a book that will hold your interest even when the series regulars aren’t present.  Brokk, the one alien character in the book, is not given a whole lot of time in the book, but that’s not a bad thing.  The book has a story at its core that is easy to understand and is very entertaining.  The book has a really neat ending.  This isn’t a political drama as the 3rd Doctor’s era was generally so good at telling.  This is a very human drama that showcases all of the regular characters at their very best.  It is lengthy (315 pages), but it will definitely hold your interest the whole way through.  The jeopardy part of the plot that is set in the present time with the seeming appparitions threatening the world, in contrast to the plot with the Grovers with the erupting volcano and the large insects, which is set in 1934, is somewhat similar to the threat in the last radio drama by Barry Letts, which was so boring when I started reading the novelization of it that I stopped after 105 pages.  (Part of my stopping was also motivated by the hope that I would eventually hear the broadcast of it and that the last perfrormance of Jon Pertwee as the Doctor would bring some life to the story.)  Bulis’s book serves to remind the reader of just how good a companion Liz Shaw was.  She could really stand on her own two feet, and the series was denied a talented performer when producer Barry Letts decided to create a new companion and Caroline John became pregnant, which would have hindered her return to the series for a second season in any case.  This book highlights the greatness of Season 7 of the program, and it demonstrates that it probably would have been even better if Mike Yates had been present for it.  The book doesn’t explore the mythology of the program as does David McIntee’s recent excellent 2nd Doctor novel with the Master, but like that book, this recent recent work by Christopher Bulis is a darned fine read.  I couldn’t give a stronger recommendation to this book.