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number= 13 | | |series=[[BBC Torchwood novels]] | ||
main character= | |number= 13 | ||
|main character= [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] | |||
|featuring= [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], [[Nina Rogers|Nina]], [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] | |||
|enemy= The [[Vam]] | |||
|setting= [[Cardiff]], [[2009]] | |||
|writer= James Goss | |||
|publisher= BBC Books | |||
format= Hardcover Book| | |release date= 15 October 2009 | ||
isbn= ISBN 978- | |format= Hardcover Book, 256 pages | ||
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84607-783-8 | |||
next | |prev= The House That Jack Built (novel) | ||
|next= The Undertaker's Gift (novel) | |||
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'''''Risk Assessment''''' was the thirteenth release in the [[BBC Torchwood novels|BBC ''Torchwood'' Novels]] series. | |||
==Publisher's | == Publisher's summary == | ||
[[Agnes | [[Agnes Havisham]] is awake, and [[Jack Harkness|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 [[Cardiff Rift|the Rift]]. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the [[Bristol Channel]], it's down to [[Torchwood 3|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! | ||
== | == Plot == | ||
''to be added'' | |||
== | == Characters == | ||
* | * Captain [[Jack Harkness]] | ||
* [[Gwen Cooper]] | |||
* [[Ianto Jones]] | |||
* [[Agnes Havisham]] | |||
* [[Rhys Williams]] | |||
* Professor [[Hess (Risk Assessment)|Hess]] | |||
* [[George Herbert Sanderson]] | |||
* [[Slyrr]] | |||
* [[Henderson (Risk Assessment)|Henderson]] | |||
* Queen [[Victoria]] | |||
* [[Vam]] | |||
* [[Pigeon (Risk Assessment)|Pigeon]] | |||
* Professor [[Jenkins (Risk Assessment)|Jenkins]] | |||
* Mr [[Jilks (Risk Assessment)|Jilks]] | |||
* [[Conradin (Risk Assessment)|Conradin]] | |||
* Mrs [[Magee (Risk Assessment)|Magee]] | |||
* [[Nina Rogers]] | |||
* [[Dad (Risk Assessment)|Dad]] | |||
* [[Scott (Risk Assessment)|Scott]] | |||
* [[Gran (Risk Assessment)|Gran]] | |||
* [[Anita (Risk Assessment)|Anita]] | |||
* [[Colin (Risk Assessment)|Colin]] | |||
* [[Janice (Risk Assessment)|Janice]] | |||
* [[Kevin (Risk Assessment)|Kevin]] | |||
* [[zZxgbtl]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* | * Gwen toys with the idea of ringing up [[Martha Jones]] for some "pre-wedding gossip". | ||
*[[Nina Rogers]] also appears in ''[[Bay of the Dead]]'' and ''[[Consequences]]'' and is mentioned in ''[[The Undertaker's Gift | * Rhys has an [[Joyce (Risk Assessment)|Auntie Joyce]] and an [[Hywel (Risk Assessment)|Uncle Hywel]]. | ||
* Agnes is referred to as [[Little Bo Peep]]. | |||
* [[Merthyr]] is mentioned. | |||
*Whilst fighting a robotic soldier trying to open a | * Jack and Agnes discuss [[Torchwood One]], the [[London Rift]] and [[Torchwood Four]]. | ||
* | * Agnes mentions the [[Borgia]]s. | ||
* | * Torchwood owns a [[Sea Queen II|speedboat]]. | ||
* Victoria knows the [[Dowager]] [[Gowan (Risk Assessment)|Mrs Gowan]]. | |||
* Victoria owns a house on the [[Solent]]. | |||
* The Vam's eats [[Suzanne (Risk Assessment)|Suzanne]] and learns she had an unresolved romantic attachment to a man named [[Brian Shaw|Brian]]. | |||
* Jack uses an [[Ice Warrior]] [[sonic cannon]] and the [[singularity scalpel]] to kill the [[Vam]]. | |||
* [[Planet X (Risk Assessment)|Planet X]] is the homeworld of the [[XXltttxtolxtol]]. | |||
* In the [[1960s]] Jack helped Torchwood defeat an invasion from the [[Ice Warrior]]s. Torchwood salvaged their [[sonic cannon]]s. | |||
== Notes == | |||
* This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store. | |||
== Continuity == | |||
* Gwen remembers that Jack once spent two thousand years underground. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') | |||
* [[Nina Rogers]] also appears in ''[[Bay of the Dead]]'', ''[[The House That Jack Built (novel)|The House That Jack Built]]'' and ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]'' and is mentioned in ''[[The Undertaker's Gift (novel)|The Undertaker's Gift]]'' | |||
* Whilst fighting a robotic soldier trying to open a [[subspace]] rift above the East India Docks, Agnes says that Torchwood can easily handle a [[space-time rift]] and that it is "far from Doomsday", a reference to [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', as this spatial rift would cause Torchwood to build Canary Wharf and lead to the events of those episodes. | |||
* After the loss of the ''[[Sea Queen]]'' ship in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sin Eaters]]'', Torchwood have replaced it with the ''[[Sea Queen II]]''. | |||
* [[Slyrr]]'s comments on females, specifically mentioning the "thorax", mimic [[Jingo Linx]]'s comments in [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]''. | |||
* Martha Jones is about to get married. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') | |||
* The coffins each have a mauve marking. Mauve was previosuly established as the universal colour for danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') | |||
* Agnes states that those close to Jack Harkness tend to die. By this point, [[Estelle Cole]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Small Worlds (TV story)|Small Worlds]]'') [[Owen Harper]] and [[Toshiko Sato]] had died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exits Wounds]]'') [[Ianto Jones]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'') Jack's grandson [[Steven Carter]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'') and [[Esther Drummond]] would all face similar fates. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line (TV story)|The Blood Line]]'') | |||
* The first human victim of the Vam is an estate agent who has an unresolved romantic attachment to a man named Brian. The team previously looked into the disappearance of estate agent [[Brian Shaw]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[SkyPoint (novel)|SkyPoint]]'') | |||
* Gwen returns to [[SkyPoint]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[SkyPoint (novel)|SkyPoint]]'') | |||
* Agnes mentions that Cardiff had a local legend about dead walking the streets. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') Gwen tells her that she's fought [[zombie]]s. (''[[Bay of the Dead (novel)|Bay of the Dead]]'') | |||
* Gwen tells Agnes about the invasion of the [[Dalek]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') | |||
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