Exodus Code (novel)
Exodus Code was the first Torchwood novel published following the conclusion of Torchwood: Miracle Day in 2011. It was the second Torchwood collaboration between John Barrowman and his sister, Carole, following the comic story The Selkie in 2009.
After its release, no further Torchwood stories were produced until the release of the audio story The Conspiracy in 2015.
Publisher's summary
From Torchwood star John Barrowman, and Carole Barrowman, an epic thriller that finds Captain Jack and Gwen in a race to save humanity itself.
It starts with a series of unexplained events. Earth tremors across the globe. Women being driven insane by their heightened and scrambled senses. And the world is starting to notice — the number one Twitter trend is #realfemmefatales.
Governments and scientists are bewildered and silent. The world needs Torchwood, but there's not much of Torchwood left.
Captain Jack has tracked the problem to its source: a village in Peru, where he's uncovered evidence of alien involvement. In Cardiff, Gwen Cooper has discovered something alien and somehow connected to Jack. If the world is to be restored, she has to warn him — but she's quickly becoming a victim of the madness too...
Plot
Part one
In 1930, Jack is flown over la Madre Montâna in Peru by Renso to see three spinning rings of igneous rock which he sketches, finding the patterns that they form somehow familiar. He hears music and a chorus of his own voice in his head telling him how things are and will be for him and sees his mother, but he is able to push them all away and, as he and Renso fly away, he sees trees uprooting themselves and moving towards the rings. He has a fit and Renso's wrist inexplicably snaps in half, causing the biplane to go on a collision course and Jack to fall from it.
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Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Characters
- Jack Harkness
- Gwen Cooper
- Rhys Williams
- Andy Davidson
- Mary Cooper
- Anwen Williams
- Olivia Steele
- Renso Castenado
- Isela Castenado
- Rex Matheson
- Sam
- Eva Giles
- Vlad Lidenbrok
- Cash
- Dana MacLeish
- Hollis Jefferson Albert
- Mary Shelley
- Olivares Donoso
References
- Rex Matheson has been appointed Deputy Director of the CIA.
- Gwen, Rhys and Anwen are still living with Mary Cooper in Swansea.
- The Ice Maiden is caught in a storm on the Skaggerak Strait in the North Sea.
- Geologic time scale is mentioned.
Notes
- This story was released as an audiobook on 13 September 2012, read by Daniel Pirrie.
- This is the first Torchwood novel set after the events of Miracle Day.
Continuity
- The events of AUDIO: Fallout are referred to.
- There are numerous references to Miracle Day and the aftermath of it.
- Sarah Jane Smith has told Jack about the time she encountered the Helix Intelligence. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
- Vlad was one of the techs assigned to study the Mandragora Helix virus when it infected the internet in 2009. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)
- Gwen refers to Esther Drummond's death. (TV: The Blood Line)
External links
- Official Exodus Code page at Penguin Books
