Ghost Train (Torchwood)

Torchwood audio book
In The Shadows
Release number 9
Writer James Goss
Read by Kai Owen
Publisher BBC Audiobooks
Release date 7 March 2011
Preceded by Department X

Ghost Train is a BBC Audiobooks original audiobook written by James Goss and based on the British science fiction television, Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood. The story is set during and after the second series of the show and was released in March 2011. Kai Owen narrates the story, which is largely set from the perspective of Rhys Williams

Like all Torchwood spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series remains unclear.

Plot introduction

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…