Peter Purves is a strong narrator - he manages to bring a degree of characterisation and feeling to the reading without being excessive and overwhelming the story. Nonetheless, this is a well written and accomplished book that manages to be more than a mere novelisation. In particular, in the television version, it is unclear for a long time whether the Abbot is actually someone who looks just like the Doctor, or whether he is the Doctor in disguise, and that lack of certainty is a real strength. It gains a clarity that the television version lacked but at the expense of ambiguity. It is a different thing altogether - a reworking of the story by the original author, John Lucarotti.
Of the three serials he wrote for the series, only The Aztecs survived destruction, with Marco Polo and. He later wrote the novelisations of all three stories: Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre. This novelisation is not a faithful reproduction of the television series. John Lucarotti ( - 20 November 1994 1) wrote the screenplays for the Doctor Who stories Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Massacre.
Anyone wanting to get a feel for what the original television production was like should listen to the BBC release of the recording made by fans off air (beautifully restored and narrated for release). The Massacre is one of those stories sadly junked by the BBC long ago, and so it cant now be watched as a television programme.
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