Quotes from Torchwood: The Undertaker's Gift...

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Quotes from Torchwood: The Undertaker's Gift by Trevor Baxendale:
From page 11:

With a loud crack the coffin lid burst open and a shrouded figure emerged. The linen fell away to revel something only vaguely humanoid... 'I'm afraid it's hello and goodbye,' said Jack, drawing his Webley revolver and shotting the thing through the centre of its head. Mutant brain matter sprayed across the grave, and the corpse fell back into the coffin with a heavy thud....

Then silence.

'Bloody Torchwood,' said the vicar.

Also page 11:

Ianto stepped forward, offering the deceased's mother a glass of water. He had seemingly conjured the glass out of thin air. It was a skill that only the very best butlers could master, as Jack would often point out. He loved to tease.

From page 64:

'I once had a whole squad of execution robots sent after me.' Jack's brows furrowed. 'But let's not go into that. Things were very different then. And I came to an agreement with the robots anyway.'

'An agreement?' Ianto echoed, raising an eyebrow.

Jack grinned at the memory. 'What a night that was.'

Ianto's eyebrows dipped. 'With execution robots.'

'Well, the squad leader, really. Top of the range, touch-sensitive bearings and a micromesh skin. A bit uptight, of course, but me and a can of Brasso soon taught him how to relax.'

'I think I've heard enough,' Gwen interjected.

I love Ianto's wandering eyebrows there. And I like the sense of continuity, that Jack has seduced his potential executioners more than once.

Baxendale writes Jack very much as the Jack of The Doctor Dances, and I like that.