torchwood border princes

Anyone read the Torchwood book - Border Princes? I need help remembering something!?

I don't know/remember what happenned to the Amok/multi-dimensional game or the salesman that hypnotised customers. How do they fit in the plot? I read it a few weeks ago, borrowing a friend's book and I just realised I don't know what happened to those details. I would borrow the book again but someone else is at the moment. Can anyone help?
- Just in general it's a really good book, so is 'Another Life' - the 1st one.

Hi LC,

Border Princes is of course one of the Torchwood series. It is a continuation of the action begun in "Another Life" and "Slow Decay." It was written by Dan Abnet and also appeared in a popular TV adaptation.

Just to refresh your memory of the plot, here's a brief summary:

The End of the World began on a Thursday night in October, just after eight in the evening...

The Amok is driving people out of their minds, turning them into zombies and causing riots in the streets. A solitary diner leaves a Cardiff restaurant, his mission to protect the Principal leading him to a secret base beneath a water tower. Everyone has a headache; there's something in Davey Morgan's shed; and the church of St Mary-in-the-Dust, demolished in 1840, has reappeared - though it's not due until 2011. Torchwood seem to be out of their depth. What will all this mean for the romance between Torchwood's newest members?

Captain Jack Harkness has something more to worry about: an alarm, an early warning, given to mankind and held - inert - by Torchwood for 108 years. A now it's flashing. Something is coming. Or something is already here.

So the Amok game is the source of the insanity that is causing people to go insane. The salesman you mention is a force for evil, but this only become clear as the book progresses.

Hope this helps.