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name= Long Time Dead | | |name= Long Time Dead | ||
image=Long Time Dead.jpg | | |image=Long Time Dead.jpg | ||
series=[[BBC Torchwood novels]]| | |series=[[BBC Torchwood novels]] | ||
number= 17 | | |number= 17 | ||
main character= [[Tom Cutler]]| | |main character= [[Tom Cutler]] | ||
featuring= | | |featuring= | ||
enemy= [[Suzie Costello]]| | |enemy= [[Suzie Costello]] | ||
year= [[Cardiff]], October 2009 | | |year= [[Cardiff]], October 2009 | ||
writer= [[Sarah Pinborough]] | | |writer= [[Sarah Pinborough]] | ||
publisher= [[BBC Books]] | | |publisher= [[BBC Books]] | ||
release date= [[4 August]] [[2011]] | | |release date= [[4 August]] [[2011]] | ||
format= Softcover Book| | |format= Softcover Book | ||
isbn= ISBN 1-84990-284-4| | |isbn= ISBN 1-84990-284-4 | ||
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next= The Men Who Sold the World (novel) | next= The Men Who Sold the World (novel) | ||
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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.
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.
Characters
Torchwood
- Suzie Costello
- Jack Harkness (flashback/cameo)
- Ianto Jones (flashback)
- Owen Harper (flashback)
- Toshiko Sato (flashback)
Police
- DI Tom Cutler
- Sergeant Andy Davidson
- DCI Waterman
Government
- Mr. Black
- Rick Yates MP
- Commander Elwood Jackson
References
to be added
Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
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.
Audio release
- The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Indira Varma.
