New Torchwood books

With the release of “Torchwood – The Encyclopedia” comes three new Torchwood novels from BBC Books. The stories appear to accompany series 3, but one of the books includes Owen. Could Owen still be alive or was he used just as a reference? Is it possible that his ghost came back to haunt the team?

Here’s a synopsis of each book:

Torchwoood: 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 Haversham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her 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.

Torchwood: 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 shopping centre?

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 have a cost for Torchwood more than half a century earlier?

For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past… Featuring stories by writers for the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including Joseph Lidster and James Moran, plus Andrew Cartmel and David Llewellyn.

Torchwood: Undertakers 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 cortège 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 by the Undertaker’s gift to planet Earth?

Where to get them?

You can get all three books now from Amazon’s UK or U.S. stores. Use the links below for easy purchase.

Amazon.co.uk (UK)

Torchwood: Risk Assessment
Torchwood: Consequences
Torchwood: The Undertaker’s Gift

Amazon.com (U.S.)

Torchwood: Risk Assessment
Torchwood: Consequences
Torchwood: The Undertaker’s Gift

Forum member and moderator jackngwen4eva has started a thread on these books and has provided some details on each writer’s relationship slant.