Trace Memory

Trace Memory by David LLewellyn is an amusing adventure based on the television series Torchwood and using it's cast of characters. If one is a fan of this series, and I am, then the book is a pleasant evening or afternoon in company with characters with which one is familiar. The story opens in 1953 on Cardiff docks when a mysterious crate explodes turning a young docker, Michael Bellini, into an involuntary time traveller pursued by the oldest creatures in the universe and no, that does not include this writer even if he does feel that way sometimes. After materialising in the Torchwood vaults the team realise that he has appeared in the lives of all of them at various times and that his appearance at Torchwood is linked to the remains of the 1953 explosion now stored there, a radioactive sphere which is sought by the ancient beings known as the Vondrax. This is a book strictly for the fans of Captain Jack Harkness and his team who, fortunately for the BBC, are legion.