Torchwood Ghost Train

Name: Torchwood Ghost Train
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: James Goss
ISBN: 9781408480489

Author: James Goss

Narrator: Kai Owen

Unabridged: 2 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Published: 03/14/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Radio

Synopsis

It’s not easy being Rhys Williams. You’re married to the sexiest woman in Torchwood. She saves the world for a living, you move lorries round in a timely fashion. Suddenly, you’ve got a mystery of your own. Oh, it starts off being about missing fridges. But it leads to a midnight train pulling into an abandoned platform at Cardiff Station. What is the mysterious cargo that Rhys is unloading from the train? Where’s it going? And what can be behind it? Rhys Williams is going to get to the bottom of it. All by himself, thank you very much. Soon Captain Jack is missing, his wife’s dead, and it’s up to Rhys to try and put everything right. And find those fridges... Written specially for audio by James Goss, Ghost Train is set before the ‘Children of Earth’ TV story and features Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, as played by John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd in the hit series from BBC Television. It is read by Kai Owen, who plays Rhys.

About James Goss

James Goss has written three Torchwood novels, a Doctor Who novel, and two radio plays, and is the co-author, with Steve Tribe of The Dalek Handbook and Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects. His Doctor Who audiobook Dead Air won Best Audiobook 2010 and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wee on November 11, 2019

Excellent......more

Goodreads review by Taaya on June 07, 2025

This would've worked as a TV episode, might have even worked in text form. But despite Kai Owen being a really good narrator the plot was just too much "blink and you'll miss it" on top of time travel shenanigans. It went so far that for a time I actually lost track of the plot - when the scene from......more

Goodreads review by Mendy on July 31, 2015

This is one of the more fun books of the Torchwood series. It takes place somewhere between season 2 and 3 I think and its read by Kai Owen, who plays the lovely Rhys Williams in the Torchwood TV series. I’ve listened to more audio books by him and he does have a nice voice for narrating these kinds......more

Goodreads review by Jules on July 13, 2012

2 CD Torchwood story written for audio, and set between second and third series. It's read by actor Kai Owen, for the very good reason that it's a first person narrative from one Rhys Williams, haulage manager. What we get is not just "actor reads book", but "actor in character tells us a story abou......more

Goodreads review by Leila on December 02, 2018

Kai Owen reads this exclusive Torchwood audio which is entirely from Rhys' POV. He does an excellent job and it is quite a nice twist to see things from the outside in so to speak. The beginning of this one is brilliant - Rhys smells something fishy when fridges go missing from his haulage firm and h......more