Torchwood: Exodus Code

horrible climb out of the smoking volcano where he’d lain, broken and mummified for days, waiting in agony for the Earth, the mountain and his body to heal, believing then that with Gwen’s sacrifice his heart never would.
    And then he’d rolled over the lip of the basin into the hazy ash-filled sunlight and he’d seen her, sitting on a deckchair next to Vlad and Eva in the cracked and swollen clearing, waiting for him as they had been every day since the mountain had taken him.
    When Jack had walked out of the white haze, Vlad nudged Gwen who scrambled out of the deckchair and raced into his arms.
    Suddenly, Shelley morphed at Gwen’s side, looking in every way identical to her, including a chromosome sequence that Vlad had coded into the avatar mimicking Gwen’s genetic code, using the information in Jack’s notebook.
    ‘Fuck – me!’ said Gwen, who had very little memory of the previous few weeks.
    ‘That program is now fully functional,’ said Shelley.
    ‘Luckily,’ said Vlad, leaning over and kissing Eva, ‘I don’t need it.’

Acknowledgements
    To bring Captain Jack and
Torchwood
alive in these pages was a distinct privilege if a bit daunting. We may have an inside track on the Captain, but
Torchwood
’s creator, Russell T Davies, remains the Titan in the
Torchwood
universe and ours. We salute you, sir.
    Many thanks to the folks behind the publication of
Exodus Code
, especially to Steve Tribe and James Goss, our terrific editors, who are masters of the
Torchwood
universe, and to Albert DePetrillo and Nicholas Payne at BBC Books. Thanks also to Gary Russell and all at BBC Wales for allowing us to tell this tale in the first place.
    A team of talented friends and family toil behind the scenes to make it possible for us to collaborate on our many projects. First, we’re sending cake and hearty thanks to Gavin Barker of Gavin Barker and Associates Inc., Georgina Capel of Capel and Land Ltd, and Rhys Livesy.
    Without Kevin Casey, Carole would spend all day in her pyjamas, eating only chocolate raisins, and getting in fights with her imaginary friends (there are many).
    Without Scott Gill, John would not know the wonder of a bacon buttie on a Sunday morning.
    And without Marion, John, Clare (welcome to Team Barrowman , Casey) and Turner, we would think everything we did was funny and worth sharing.
    Finally, the histories of the ancient peoples of Peru are rich ones, but the Cuari tribe in this novel have no relationship to the city in Peru and the people living there, then and now. The Cuari living within these pages are purely fictional.
    John & Carole

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