The novel “Risk Assessment” by James Goss was published for the first time in 2010.

For Captain Jack Harkness’s team the situation seems normal at a time when the only Rift activity is the arrival of coffins containing bodies of aliens from who knows where. The task of collecting them and preventing someone else from getting their hands on them seems trivial, but for the moment there’s nothing else to do until an extraordinary event.

When Agnes Havisham awakens from her cryogenic sleep, it’s only the fourth time that that happened within a century. Torchwood’s systems only awakens her in the most catastrophic moments, but there seems to be no danger threatening the world. Jack Harkness has seen those past moments and, even though he and his team have overcome various crises, the possibility that something even worse might come upsets him deeply.