Anansi and Coyote go their separate ways, Iktomi's threat still ringing in their ears. After a dull day making telephone calls to keep their con rolling, Anansi is attacked by a dozen vicious, evil fairies, furious with him for killing their king the night before. Anansi uses every trick he can, manifesting himself as a variety of different spiders in order to trap, poison and rend the fairies limb from limb. But can he outwit them all?