Lawrence Miles is an Ideas Guy. He shows you an idea and says "pretty cool, right?" and you have to agree that yeah!, it's pretty cool.

Unfortunately his ability to write a story that doesn't annoy me is somewhat lacking. I couldn't say exactly what it is, but The Adventuress of Henrietta Street struck me as far too smug for its own good. It *thinks* it's much cleverer than it is, in a way that reduces a "fairly alright" plot to "irritating". Plus, he seemed to have just forgotten about Anji. I know the format meant the Doctor's companions weren't really the focus, but even compared to Fitz she just wasn't present