Tak! quoted The Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding
As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew …
Captain Darian Frey was accustomed to long odds; his whole life, he’d been an outside chance. Lacking the ability to win in a fair fight, he survived instead by guile and the illogical optimism favoured by gamblers and drunks, which made the riskiest of plans seem like a good idea at the time.