The Men Who Sold the World (novel)

The Men Who Sold the World was the eighteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series and served as a prequel to TV: The New World.

Publisher's summary
When Oscar Lupé appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.

The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case. As the strange deaths pile up, Rex realises there must be experimental tech out there, but someone is obstructing him at every turn. Rex is the CIA's golden boy — but has he met his match in the evasive Mr. Wynter...?

Plot
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Characters

 * Jack Harkness
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Ianto Jones
 * Rex Matheson
 * Esther Drummond
 * Mr Broderick
 * Ted Loomis
 * Colonel Cotter Gleason
 * Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Mulroney
 * Oscar Lupé
 * Corporal Owen Mills
 * Glen Shaeffer
 * Sergeant Joe Leonard
 * Sergeant David Ellroy
 * Mr Wynter
 * The Employer
 * The Older Man
 * The Woman
 * The Young Irish Man
 * The Representative
 * Mr Black
 * Wilson
 * Commander Harris
 * Angelo
 * Penelope Lupé
 * Major John Rider
 * The ArchDuke
 * Dubert Willocks
 * Sergeant Dolores Cortez
 * Larry Gulliver
 * Mikey Gulliver

Worldbuilding

 * Part of the Torchwood shipment is a Judoon firearm. It also contains the hand weapon of an aquatic Earth Reptile.
 * Angelo's grandmother's favourite actor is Wesley Snipes. She also watches the adventures of Vin Diesel.
 * The Ytraxorians are from the planet Ytraxor.
 * Rex tells Esther not to compare the real world to The X-Files.
 * To get out of Cuba, Rex flies to Nassau, and then to Miami.
 * Garden of the Gods is a national park in Colorado.

Continuity

 * The Ytraxorian is encountered by Torchwood 3 before the death of Ianto Jones and the destruction of The Hub.
 * A Yeti Web-gun is part of the shipment of salvaged artefacts given to the CIA. (TV: The Web of Fear) A Yeti control sphere was previously noted to be in Torchwood's possession. (PROSE: Trace Memory)
 * Rick Yates is the British Foreign Secretary. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)

Audio release

 * The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by John Telfer.