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Long Time Dead was the seventeenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series and served as a prequel to The New World, as well as a direct sequel to the events of Children of Earth.
Contents
Publisher's summary[]
Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know.
The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what – or who – might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone.
Plot[]
to be added
Characters[]
Torchwood[]
Police[]
- DI Tom Cutler
- Sergeant Andy Davidson
- DCI Waterman
Government[]
- Mr Black
- Commander Elwood Jackson
References[]
Notes[]
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
The Audiobook cover.
Continuity[]
- Tom Cutler appears in PROSE: Into the Silence and the events of that story are mentioned several times.
- Andy has recently been promoted to Sergeant and is secretly wondering if the promotion is to "shut him up" following his involvement with the recent 456 crisis. (TV: Day Five)
- One of the empty packing crates in the ruins of the Hub is labelled "Colasanto". (TV: End of the Road)
- Suzie recalls shooting Jack through the head. (TV: Everything Changes)
Audio release[]
- The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Indira Varma.
External links[]
- Official Long Time Dead page at Penguin Books
