This is a short story written by someone who clearly has great affection for Gilmore and Lethbridge-Stewart, yet has decided to give just enough details in this story that trying to work out how it fits into the Counter-Measures timeline has given me a headache. In fairness, the Candy Jar and Big Finish Counter-Measures ranges are generally incompatible after 1966, so we can pretend it's a case of the multiverse splitting in two, just to save my poor head.

Anyway. *The Dogs of War* sees us with a younger Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart and older Air Vice-Marshal Gilmore. It is interesting to see the dynamic between the two, and I feel this story does a good job of showing Lethbridge-Stewart as an intelligent man as he is constantly assessing the situation in the underground and piecing together Gilmore's plans. Gilmore, meanwhile is having far too much fun stringing the Colonel along and throwing him into the path of the Yeti. Because of course the Yeti is there.

Honestly, there's not too much substance to the threat, and it doesn't feel terribly threatening. Added to the fact that the prose is quite dry and sluggish, I don't think much of this will be sticking in my head for long. However, it was nice to see reference to Professor Jensen and Doctor Williams (who everyone knows I adore), even if they were referred to as 'Gilmore's girls'. A joke, perhaps? A horridly not funny one. After all, everyone knows Professor Rachel Jensen is the boss. Now to return to pretending that the Candy Jar assertion that Ian and Rachel are married does not exist...