No matter how dangerous your career choice, you never really know how far wrong things can go until they do.
Peter Ringgold is a pirate, an extremely bored pirate who has done nothing even remotely piratical for a week and is getting sick of floating aimlessly through the sky. When he catches sight of a huge, seemingly defenseless merchant airship he thinks his problems are over, but things are entirely the opposite of what they seem.
What he and his crew find is as shocking as it is deadly, and seems likely to herald a whole new era of warfare, as well as the end of nearly everything Peter knows and cares about.
Left the sole survivor of his crew, on a crashed ship stranded in the middle of rural Wales, and with a distinct and disturbing sense of having been left there for a reason, he must get airborne again and discover the reason behind everything that has happened to him so far, whilst attempting to survive all the new things that await him along the way.
But if he has been spared for a reason, that reason isn't likely to go away, and the bizarre automatons that haunt his dreams are still out there somewhere, going about whatever business his crew so unwisely interrupted.