diff --git a/src/api.test.ts b/src/api.test.ts
index 50bff06..4adec83 100644
--- a/src/api.test.ts
+++ b/src/api.test.ts
@@ -304,3 +304,16 @@ test('API `delete` calls with shorthand `get` should succeed', async done => {
   expect(response.data).toEqual(EMPTY_BODY);
   done();
 });
+
+test('API catches ETIMEDOUT error', async done => {
+  nock('https://api.pagerduty.com')
+    .get('/incidents')
+    .replyWithError({code: 'ETIMEDOUT'});
+
+  const pd = api({token: 'someToken1234567890'});
+
+  await expect(pd.get('/incidents')).rejects.toThrow(
+    'request to https://api.pagerduty.com/incidents failed, reason: undefined'
+  );
+  done();
+});
diff --git a/src/common.ts b/src/common.ts
index 51be4b4..d4a0664 100644
--- a/src/common.ts
+++ b/src/common.ts
@@ -45,21 +45,23 @@ function fetch_retry(
   options: RequestOptions
 ): Promise<Response> {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    fetch(url, options).then(response => {
-      // We don't want to `reject` when retries have finished
-      // Instead simply stop trying and return.
-      if (retries === 0) return resolve(response);
-      if (response.status === 429) {
-        const {retryTimeout = 20000} = options;
-        retryTimeoutPromise(retryTimeout).then(() => {
-          fetch_retry(url, retries - 1, options)
-            .then(resolve)
-            .catch(reject);
-        });
-      } else {
-        resolve(response);
-      }
-    });
+    fetch(url, options)
+      .then(response => {
+        // We don't want to `reject` when retries have finished
+        // Instead simply stop trying and return.
+        if (retries === 0) return resolve(response);
+        if (response.status === 429) {
+          const {retryTimeout = 20000} = options;
+          retryTimeoutPromise(retryTimeout).then(() => {
+            fetch_retry(url, retries - 1, options)
+              .then(resolve)
+              .catch(reject);
+          });
+        } else {
+          resolve(response);
+        }
+      })
+      .catch(reject);
   });
 }