Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead [Hardcover]

Mark Morris (Author)

Book Description

Series: Torchwood | Publication Date: August 18, 2009

When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk! Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen tugboat is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood must now contend with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show! Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T. Davies for BBC Television.

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About the Author

Mark Morris is the author of fourteen novels, including two Doctor Who books, and numerous novellas, short stories, articles and reviews, which have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines. This is his first Torchwood novel. His website can be found at www.markmorriswriter.com

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Random House UK (August 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1846077370
• ISBN-13: 978-1846077371
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Horror, oh the horror!, September 21, 2009

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Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead (Hardcover)

I am not really into zombies. Shaun of the Dead was as far as I will go with that type of movie. So this kind of grossed me out. Still, there was some joy and some happiness and a lot of head shots. Gamers and zombie movie lovers should love this book. It is one of a kind in the torchwood series - none of them have zombies!
While I do miss the characters of Tosh and Owen there was an advantage to having only three members of the team - the author was able focus all the details and energy on those three characters.
Get it used or new.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Aliens, Zombies and Torchwood, Oh My!, February 10, 2011

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Ruth R. King "Bookish Ruth" (Spring City, PA , USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead (Hardcover)

The Torchwood team have seen a lot of strange things, but when zombies swarm Cardiff, Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones feel as though they are living in a bad horror film. With Cardiff mysteriously cut off from the rest of the world, Torchwood and the residents of the bay city are on their own. Can Torchwood determine the source of their undead problem, and, more importantly, can they stop it?

Of all the Torchwood tie-in novels I have read (I think I have read all but three of them at this point), this was one of the most enjoyable. Zombies and Torchwood go together like bread and butter. Gwen's husband, Rhys, and her former police partner, PC Andy Davison, both play larger roles in this novel due to the absences of Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato. I am not a huge fan of Rhys, but I enjoyed him in this story. I also enjoyed seeing more of Andy; I hope we will see his role expand in future novels.

There is a fair amount of gore, as one would expect from a story centering around zombies. I was never bothered by this, despite my aversion to zombie movies as a whole. All of the Torchwood characters are portrayed well; there's quite a bit of banter between Jack and Ianto and some touching scenes between Gwen and Rhys. The story felt like it could be an episode of the show, which is my main criterion for these books.

Mark Morris has written two Doctor Who tie-in novels, Doctor Who Forever Autumn and Doctor Who: Ghosts Of India, both of which I enjoyed. I had high expectations for this book based on those two previous titles and I was not disappointed. Recommended for Torchwood fans.

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it in a little over four hours, January 9, 2011

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This review is from: Torchwood: Bay of the Dead (Kindle Edition)

So I really don't like zombie books much, in fact I'm terrified of zombies and can't even watch funny zombie movies without having nightmares, and yet I loved this book. I took a road trip with my family this past weekend and decided to read it and the whole four hours we were in the car I didn't put the book down. It was the first one of the Torchwood books I have read so I don't know how good it is in relation to the others but I did enjoy it a lot. I did find the ending kind of strange though but not bad at all.