title: The Takeover
author: Stephen W. Frey
description: Corporate financier Frey's debut novel concerns a secret society of powerful businessmen who attempt to engineer a large-scale economic disaster to topple the President. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ## Retribution Falls
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Tales of the Ketty Jay - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chris Wooding
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly
  dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his
  gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed
  flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter
  craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally make a nuisance of
  themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like
  a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes
  wrong, and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance anymore
  _—_ he's public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his tail and
  contractors hired to take him down. But Frey knows something they don't. That
  freighter was rigged to blow, and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he
  wants to pro