Retribution Falls: Tales of the Ketty Jay - Softcover

If masterful plotting were the book's only attribute, then Retribution Falls would still be a first-rate read. What makes it exceptional is the psychological insight rare in fast-paced, adventure SF. Frey is a fully-rounded character whose selfishness and duplicity undergo a gradual transformation as events cause him to reassess his motivations, as well as to appreciate the qualities of his crew, themselves fascinating individuals. On every level, Retribution Falls is a triumph. (Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN)

Retribution Falls is the kind of old fashioned adventure I didn't think we were allowed to write any more, of freebooting privateers making their haphazard underhand way in a wondrous retro-future world. But Chris has dusted off the format and given it a sharp modern edge that makes for a fast exhilarating read (Peter F. Hamilton)

There's a neat combination of swashbuckling excitement and wisecracking patter with sometimes surprisingly hard-edged violence, moral ambiguity, and a cumulative depth. It pulls the neat trick of sucking you in with pure entertainment value, and delivering substance while you're not looking. Retribution Falls picks you up, and it whisks you swiftly and entertainingly along, and it sets you down with a big smile on your face (Joe Abercrombie)

Retribution Falls is all the pirate yarns, heist movies and spaghetti westerns you've ever seen. It's how Wooding tells it that makes the difference. The pace is furious, the action is full-screen, the style is sharp and polished, the air is full of whizzing bullets and strangled cries. What's not to like? About as good a telling of the old tale as you're likely to get. (Tom Holt SFX)

This is a cracking, if rather derivative, adventure yarn. (Jonathan Wright BBC FOCUS)

Retribution Falls is a rollicking good action-adventure yarn that absolutely doesn't take itself too seriously. from the first page to the last this is a book chock-full of dockside gunfights, aerial chases, dogfights and fist-fights and the pace is pretty relentless, slowing just enough to let you catch your breath between the action and that's why I loved it - it's FUN! (SCI-FI LONDON)

For the buccaneering spirit writ large across a realistic world of aerial technology, and some daemonic entities but little else of a genre form, this can only be highly recommended. (THE BOOK BAG)

Occasionally a book comes along which takes the concept of fun and turns it up to 11. Retribution Falls is one such book. The story powers along at a relentless, page-turning pace. (THE WERTZONE BLOG)

Anyone who likes to sympathise with rogues and shady characters, such as fans of Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora, will surely enjoy the reprobates of Retribution Falls. I am certainly looking forward to their continuing adventures (Simon Appleby BOOKGEEKS)

By the time the story ends, only the grimmest of readers won't be smiling (and/or punching the air). Sequel soon, please: the Ketty Jay's crew deserve to fly again. (TOTAL SCI FI)