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series=[[Torchwood]] - [[BBC Torchwood novels]]|
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number= 13 |
|series=[[BBC Torchwood novels]]
main character= Captain [[Jack Harkness]]|
|number= 13  
featuring= |
|main character= [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]
enemy= |
|featuring= [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], [[Nina Rogers|Nina]], [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]]
year= [[Earth]] |
|enemy= The [[Vam]]
writer= [[James Goss]] |
|setting= [[Cardiff]], [[2009]]
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|writer= James Goss
release date= [[October]], [[2009]] |
|publisher= BBC Books
format= Hardcover Book|
|release date= 15 October 2009
isbn= ISBN 978-1846077838|
|format= Hardcover Book, 256 pages
previous story= [[The House That Jack Built (novel)|The House That Jack Built]]|
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84607-783-8
next story=[[The Undertaker's Gift]]
|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 summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[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!  
[[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!


==Characters==
== Plot ==
*Captain [[Jack Harkness]]
''to be added''
*[[Gwen Cooper]]
*[[Ianto Jones]]
*[[Rhys Williams]]
*[[Nina Rogers]]
*[[Agnes Havisham]]


==References==
== Characters ==
*In one of the flashbacks Agnes states that whilst wearing roller-skates in her long dress, she must look like a Georgian State Dancer. The gliding movements of the [[Dalek]]s were originally based on the Georgian State Dancers.
* 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]]


==Notes==
''to be added''


==Continuity==
== Worldbuilding ==
*Takes place in [[2009]] after the Dalek Invasion ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End]]'')
* 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 Havisham]] and/or Torchwood knew about [[Dalek]]s in the Victorian Era.
* Agnes is referred to as [[Little Bo Peep]].
*Agnes mentions the events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]''.
* [[Merthyr]] is mentioned.
*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", which is a reference to DW: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]/[[Doomsday]]'', as this spatial rift is what would cause Torchwood to build Canary Wharf, and which leads to the events of those episodes.
* Jack and Agnes discuss [[Torchwood One]], the [[London Rift]] and [[Torchwood Four]].
*Jack mentions a colleague at [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] who he is going to upload some data on the Vam to. Presumably this is a reference to [[Martha Jones|Martha]].
* Agnes mentions the [[Borgia]]s.
*Jack uses an [[Ice Warrior]] sonic cannon and the [[Singularity Scalpel]] to kill the [[Varm]]
* 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]]'')


==Timeline==
== External links ==
*Risk Assessment occurs between: [[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'' & ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]''
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Risk Assessment was the thirteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.

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

Agnes Havisham 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!

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]


Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 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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