A tale of revenge, deceit, opium, murder and treachery in the shattered remnants of a steam-powered empire. He came from the green wastes without warning, and within two hours an entire town lay dead. Two people escape the massacre - one of them a boy named Jason Cutter with nothing to his name save a worn pistol and the memory of his murdered parents; the second a reclusive old man by the name of Ossus, with a curious knowledge of the sky-cities above and a pair of incomprehensibly advanced weapons stolen from their inhabitants - self-proclaimed gods who rose Themselves up and almost...