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novel name= Pack Animals |
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image= [[Image:Pack_Animals.jpg|250px]]|
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series=[[Torchwood]] - [[BBC Torchwood novels]] |
|image= Pack Animals.jpg
number= 7 |
|series = [[BBC Torchwood novels]]
main character=|
|number= 7  
featuring= Captain [[Jack Harkness]]|
|main character=[[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]], [[Owen Harper|Owen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]
enemy= [[Gareth Portland]]|
|featuring= Myfanwy
set between= [[A Day in the Death]] & [[Something Borrowed]] |
|enemy= [[Gareth Portland]]
year= [[Earth]], [[Wales]], [[Cardiff]] |
|setting= [[Cardiff]], [[November]] [[2008]]
writer= [[Peter Anghelides]]|
|writer= Peter Anghelides
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|publisher= BBC Books
release date= October[[2008]] |
|release date= 20 November 2008
format= Hardcover Book, ?? Pages |
|format= Hardcover Book, 256 Pages
isbn= ISBN 1-84607-574-2|
|isbn= ISBN 1-84607-574-2
previous story= [[Something in the Water]]|
|prev= The Twilight Streets (novel)
next story= [[SkyPoint (novel)|SkyPoint]]}}
|next= SkyPoint (novel)
}}{{prose stub}}
'''''Pack Animals''''' was the seventh release in the [[BBC Torchwood novels|BBC ''Torchwood'' Novels]] series.


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
Shopping for wedding gifts is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping center. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it's no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population.
Shopping for wedding gifts is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping center. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it's no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population.


Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth. Jack's investigation is hampered when he finds he's being investigated himself. Owen is convinced that it's just one guy who's toying with them. But will Torchwood find out before it's too late that the game is horribly real, and the deck is stacked against them?
Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth. Jack's investigation is hampered when he finds he's being investigated himself. Owen is convinced that it's just one guy who's toying with them. But will Torchwood find out before it's too late that the game is horribly real, and the deck is stacked against them?


==Characters==
== Plot ==
*Captain [[Jack Harkness]]
''to be added''
*[[Gwen Cooper]]
 
*[[Toshiko Sato]]
== Characters ==
*[[Owen Harper]]
* Captain [[Jack Harkness]]
*[[Ianto Jones]]
* [[Gwen Cooper]]
*[[Rhys Williams]]
* [[Toshiko Sato]]
* [[Owen Harper]]
* [[Ianto Jones]]
* [[Rhys Williams]]
* [[Gareth Portland]]
* Father [[Ninian]]
* Mrs [[Wendle]]
* Miss [[Bullivant]]
* [[David Brigstocke]]
* [[Jenny Bolton]]
* [[Daniel Pugh]]
* [[Harold Schoonhover]]
* [[Shana Bolton]]
* [[Malcolm Berkley]]
* [[Lloyd Maddock]]
* [[Jennifer Portland]]
* [[Chris Portland]]
* [[Matt Portland]]
* [[Martina Baldachi]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
*The ''Torchwood'' taxi account is in the name of ''[[Aliases of the Doctor|Dr John Smith]]''
* The Torchwood taxi account is in the name of [[Aliases of the Doctor|Dr John Smith]].
* Torchwood Three had captured a [[Vredosian]].


==Notes==
== Notes ==
* While performing triage at the bus crash, Owen must instruct uninjured passengers in taking pulses because he cannot feel a pulse, yet in ''[[From Out of the Rain (TV story)|From Out of the Rain]]'' he is able to determine that one of the Night Travellers' victims still has a pulse.
* This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.


=== Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors ===
== Continuity ==
*While performing triage at the bus crash, Owen must instruct uninjured passengers in taking pulses because he cannot feel a pulse, yet in [[TW]]: ''[[From Out of the Rain]]'' he is able to determine that one of the Night Travellers' victims still has a pulse.
* Reference is made to a [[Cash Cow|Space Whale]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'') and [[Henry Parker|Henry John Parker]] ([[TV]]: '' [[A Day in the Death (TV story)|A Day in the Death]]'') and vague reference is made to Tosh preparing [[Time-lock|"something"]] to help Torchwood in case she is longer around. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')
* Jack catches Tosh preparing her final message. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')


==Continuity==
== External links ==
*This novel takes place between [[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'' and [[TW]]: ''[[Something Borrowed]]''.
* {{Penguin|1075361/torchwood-pack-animals/}}
*Reference is made to a ''[[Cash Cow|Space Whale]]'' ([[TW]]: ''[[Meat]]'') and ''[[Henry Parker|Henry John Parker]]'' ([[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'') and vague reference is made to Tosh preparing 'something' to help ''Torchwood'' in case she is longer around. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]])
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*Jack catches Tosh preparing her final message. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')
*Jack dies four times
*[[Banana Boat]], [[Rhys Williams|Rhys']] best man, ([[TW]]: ''[[Something Borrowed]]'') had been arrested in [[Lanzarote]] for selling counterfeit CDs. It was thanks to [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] that he was released and allowed back home.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/arg/pages/episodes.shtml?folder=tw_case_ep09&tab=2&page=1 BBC Torchwood ''Something Borrowed'']</ref>


==External Links==
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==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Torchwood novels]]
[[Category:Torchwood novels]]
[[Category:2008 novels]]
[[Category:2008 novels]]
[[Category:Stories set in Cardiff]]
[[Category:Stories set in Cardiff]]
[[Category:Weevil novels]]
[[Category:Stories set at Halloween]]
[[Category:Stories set in 2009]]
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Pack Animals was the seventh release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shopping for wedding gifts is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping center. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it's no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population.

Torchwood can control small groups of scavengers, but now someone has given large numbers of predators a season ticket to Earth. Jack's investigation is hampered when he finds he's being investigated himself. Owen is convinced that it's just one guy who's toying with them. But will Torchwood find out before it's too late that the game is horribly real, and the deck is stacked against them?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • While performing triage at the bus crash, Owen must instruct uninjured passengers in taking pulses because he cannot feel a pulse, yet in From Out of the Rain he is able to determine that one of the Night Travellers' victims still has a pulse.
  • This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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