Book description
Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly
dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he
and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the
heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of
ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally
make a nuisance of themselves.
So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a
great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes
wrong, and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance
anymore - he's public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his
tail and contractors hired to take him down.
But Frey knows something they don't. That freighter was rigged to blow,
and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he wants to prove it, he's
going to have to catch the real culprit. He must face liars and lovers,
dogfights and gunfights, Dukes and daemons.
It's going to take all his criminal talents to prove he's not the
criminal they think he is . . . Chris Wooding has already signed his
first Hollywood film deal and won several awards for his writing. He is
the author of, amongst others, the Broken Sky
series, which has sold over 200,000 copies in the US alone, and The
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
, which won the Silver Smarties award. He has travelled extensively,
plays bass and guitar and has recorded several albums with various bands
and toured in Europe. His books have been published all over the world
and translated into 19 languages, and his Braided Path
trilogy for Gollancz was a critical and international success. He is
currently working on two movies with a top Hollywood director. His Ketty
Jay novels are critical and international hits.
