Continuing the adventure begun in Wild Surmise (The Pentecost Chronicles, book One), Arrington Pentecost-daredevil hero, renegade card cheat and accomplished airship thief-undertakes an ill-advised and dangerous campaign against a Consortium of evil criminals who have laid siege to an entire town of innocent victims. Leading an unlikely army comprised of three con artists, a Dandy, an elegant Viscount, a foreign Prince and a runaway teenager, Pentecost leaps feet first into the fray, armed with a handful of weapons, an undiminished sense of humor and at least one appropriated airship. His enemy awaits him with unlimited firepower, vast resources, trained assassins, and a deadly upper hand. The odds are Pentecost's favorite kind; practically impossible.