Retribution falls
Subtitle: tales of the Ketty Jay
By: by Chris Wooding
Publisher: Indigo; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781780620565
Notes: Originally published: London: Gollancz, 2009.
Table of contents: title: [Frey is the leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of smugglers, occasional pirates and sometime fraudsters. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, existing on the fringes of the empire, avoiding the attention of the Union Navy. With two ragged fighter craft and a small cargo ship on the verge of falling apart, he and his gang run contraband, rob ships and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo barque loaded with valuables seems like a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck ...right up until, on their opening salvo, the whole thing explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't a nuisance anymore; title: he's public enemy number one with the Union on his tail and contractors hired to take him down. Including his oldest and deadliest rival, Frey's ex-wife. But something about the explosion doesn't make sense. The barque must have been rigged to blow, and Frey's been framed to take the fall.But if he wants to prove it, he's going to have to catch the real culprit; title: and that means heading into the heart of the Union, and following a trail through the criminal underworld that could ultimately lead to the very top. It's going to take all his criminal talents to prove he's not a criminal ...]