Eric Hawthorne Wood is a humble wizard next to the ones of fantasy. "I don't wave wands or cast spells," he says. "But I also happen to be real." He admits some talents "that would look to you like magic" and that make him one of the most dangerous people on the planet. He'd better be. His is a hazardous career.

Narrator Wood escorts invaluable and often enchanted objects from seller to buyer in the underground economy of a long-lived wizards' community nicknaming itself "the College." In telling the tale of an occult truce his impulsive actions have tested, The Prince of the Air - Wood's adventurous memoirs - sweeps us into this quirky world-within-our-world, one of superhuman abilities, monstrous assassins, tripwire deception, and ageless intrigue.