The Undertaker's Gift (novel)

The Undertaker's Gift was the fourteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.
== Publisher's summary ==
The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back, and they're suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century! An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness! And, a record number of aliens have been coming through the Rift — it's been a busy week in Cardiff. Now, there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesn't want to be buried. Torchwood should be ready for anything, but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt, and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertaker's gift to planet Earth?
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
* Captain Jack Harkness
* Gwen Cooper
* Ianto Jones
* Nina Rogers
* Jessica Montague
* Rachel Banks
* Wynnie
* Gillian
* Kerko
* Harold
== Worldbuilding ==
* Jack was once imprisoned on Rigel 77.
* Jack takes a pair of SIG Sauer 9mm pistols, an energy lance, a Sontaran Stenk 11 pistol and a pair of AI throwing knives from the Torchwood armoury.
* Warp shunt technology can be used to achieve time travel if used near a time rift.
* Jack and the Time Agency were involved in the sinking of Atlantis.
* The Keshkali soldiers use Flechette guns which use compressed praxis gas.
* The Keshkali Ring Worlds were where the Keshkali homeworld was located. It was destroyed by a temporal fusion bomb.
* The team capture a Vortex Dweller.
* Harold sends Torchwood a recording on Betamax.
* Pitbullfrogs are predators.
* AI knives are made of Trintillium.
* Grolon rats infest Butetown.
== Notes ==
* This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
== Continuity ==
* Jack mentions the Silurians. (TV: The Silurians, TV: Warriors of the Deep)
* The team use Abaddon, (TV: End of Days) the Alien Sleepers, (TV: Sleeper) the Pharm (TV: Reset) and the events at CERN (AUDIO: Lost Souls) to prove the success of Torchwood Three.
* Wynnie knows Nina Rogers. (PROSE: Bay of the Dead, PROSE: Consequences)
* Harriet Derbyshire was interested in the abduction of Francis Morgan. (TV: To the Last Man)
* Jack calls Kathy Swanson. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)
* Erisa Magambo calls Jack. (TV: Turn Left, TV: Planet of the Dead)
* Torchwood has been busy since Jackson Leaves and Agnes Havisham. (PROSE: The House That Jack Built, Risk Assessment)
* Jack and Ianto talk about the last time they received a Hokrala writ, around the time they encountered the Strepto Hag. (PROSE: Something in the Water)
== External links ==
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