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 their home. A stolen yacht 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 have to deal 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. Not that they really believe in zombies. 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

This was the first Torchwood novel i read after watching the series. It explained, not throughly, what Ianto and Jack's relationship has slowly evolved into through most of the show and it also gave light on to how Gwen really feels about Rhys. It used all the characters more then in pervious (that i have now read) novels where the authors seems to only focus mostly on 2 of the team.

It was a little gory for my tastes and some written scenes where too much and I'm very happy it wasn't a script. The novel also shed some light on Jacks healing abilities which was very interesting. A new character was also introduced proving that Torchwood's antics do not go as unnoticed as they would like.

All in all the novel was well written, but as with most tv follow on novels it won't be making the best seller list.