Thursday, July 16, 2009

Torchwood Novels for October

The official cover art and information for three upcoming Torchwood Novels, Torchwood: Risk Assessment plus Torchwood: The Undertakers Gift plus Torchwood: Consequences, have recently been revealed by BBC Books. Torchwood: Risk Assessment, Torchwood: The Undertakers Gift plus Torchwood: Consequences all feature Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones.

Torchwood: Risk Assessment has been written by James Goss while Torchwood: The Undertakers Gift has been written by Trevor Baxendale both have previously contributed to the Doctor Who and Torchwood franchise before. Torchwood: Consequences has been written by James Moran, Joseph Lidster, Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough & David Llewellyn.

Risk Assessment

'Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?’

Agnes Havisham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times – it’s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad?

Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they're losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it's down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out.

And now they'll have to do it by the book. The 1901 edition.

The Undertaker's Gift

The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They’re suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won’t tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness.

It’s been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hub’s latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems.

But there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night-time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesn’t want to be buried.

Torchwood should be ready for anything – but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertaker’s gift to planet Earth?

Consequences

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century… Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable.

But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien’s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto’s actions at a local publisher’s affect Torchwood more than a century earlier?

For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...


BBC Books will release all three Torchwood Novels on the First of October for the price of £7.99 around the United Kingdom and Ireland. View here, here and here for all three covers of the Torchwood novels with thanks to Doctor Who Online.

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