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
- Tom Cutler
- Suzie Costello
- Andy Davidson
- Jack Harkness (flashback/cameo)
- Ianto Jones (flashback)
- Owen Harper (flashback)
- Toshiko Sato (flashback)
References
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Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- Tom Cutler appears in TWN: 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.
Timeline
- Long Time Dead occurs one month after the main events of TW: Children of Earth: Day Five, but before the epilogue.
Audio release
- The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Indira Varma.