The Black Lung Captain
Tales of the Ketty Jay
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4.6 • 27 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.
Enter Captain Grist. He's heard about a crashed aircraft laden with the treasures of a lost civilisation, and he needs Frey's help to get it. There's only one problem. The craft is lying in the trackless heart of a remote island, populated by giant beasts and subhuman monsters.
Dangerous, yes. Suicidal, perhaps. Still, Frey's never let common sense get in the way of a fortune before. But there's something other than treasure on board that aircraft. Something that a lot of important people would kill for. And it's going to take all of Frey's considerable skill at lying, cheating and stealing if he wants to get his hands on it ...
Strap yourself in for another tale of adventure and debauchery, pilots and pirates, golems and daemons, double-crosses and double-double-crosses. The crew of the Ketty Jay are back!
Customer Reviews
Great follow-up to Retribution Falls
The storyline of this second novel in the series, in my view slightly betters the standards of the original. The characters are more fleshed-out, with almost all becoming better versions of themselves.
The action is well paced and the overarching plot concludes in a very satisfying and cinematic way. However, the truly outstanding part of this book is the way Frey’s longing for his broken ex-love, tugs at the regrets we all hold inside ourselves.