Product Description

Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob's late aunt. It's an ordinary sort of a house... except for the way the rooms don't stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood. And the fact that the first owner of Jackson Leaves in 1906 was a Captain Jack Harkness... 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6823 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

About the Author
Guy Adams has written books about Life on Mars including the bestselling Rules of Modern Policing, written as DCI Gene Hunt. He's the author of the British Fantasy Society Award nominated Deadbeat series and a handful of children's books, and is currently working on a thirteen-volume horror series for young adults and a replica scrapbook of John Watson MD's time with Sherlock Holmes. This is his first Torchwood novel.

Customer Reviews

Torchwood:The House That Jack Built
Torchwood: The House That Jack Built ("Torchwood")
This is the 12th book in the Torchwood series and by far the best-it is totally Torchwood and would make great watching too.
Just like book 10 & 11, you need to pay a little more attention as there are more characters than normal and different chapters can show the story line exactly the same, but from some-one else's point of view, so you get a deja vu feeling (that's part of the story too).
It is an excellent read and re-read too.

Could have been good. Sadly it's not.
The thing with novels of TV shows is that you never know which take the author is going to have on the characters. Sometimes they bring them across beautifully, sometimes they don't. With this book written by Guy Adams sadly - in my opinion - the latter is the case.

The set up of the story could have been interesting, dealing with Jack's mysterious past. With him having been alive for so long it's a miracle that he's not constantly running into old 'aquaintances'. But the way the author describes the characters, especially the relationship between Jack and Ianto just didn't sit right with me. Not for the post-"Exit Wounds" setting. There is one particular scene with Ianto and Gwen in this book where they talk about him and Jack that ticked me completely off because Gwen is being nothing short of a patronizing know-it-all. I liked her quite a lot in other novels - "Almost Perfect" for example - but here I really didn't.

Some books are keepers, some aren't. Maybe you'll like it. It's quite chilling in places - literally and figuratively - and the different perspectives make reading the novel an interesting experience. I won't read it again though. "The House That Jack Built" simply isn't a keeper for me.

Torchwood: The House That Jack Bulit
Good Book - It's great the authors are filling the gaps in Jack's life. It will be great read more history on Gwen or Ianto.