REVOLVER MARCUS SEDGWICK

REVOLVER A BOY SITS IN A COLD, BARE SHACK SOMEWHERE NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, ALONE BUT FOR HIS FATHER'S BODY LYING ON A TABLE, FROZEN BOTH BY RIGOR MORTIS AND THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH. THE BOY'S OLDER SISTER AND STEPMOTHER HAVE GONE FOR HELP. AND THEN THERE IS A KNOCK ON THE DOOR OUTSIDE IS A GIANT OF A MAN ASKING FOR THE BOY'S FATHER. THIS IS AS STARK A BEGINNING AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. AND IT GETS WORSE. THE GIANT IS CONVINCED THAT THE DEAD MAN HAS STOLEN HIS GOLD. HE ISN'T GOING TO LEAVE WITHOUT IT AND HE HAS A GUN. BUT SO IN A WAY DOES SIG, THE BOY. IT WAS HIS FATHER'S PRIZED POSSESSION AND IT NOW LIVES IN THE STOREROOM. SIG HAS FIRED IT ONCE, THREE YEARS BEFORE, AS A BIRTHDAY TREAT WHEN HE WAS 12. THE GIANT, GUNTHER WOLFF, HAS HAD A BIT MORE PRACTICE WITH HIS. NO CONTEST, THEN, AND EVEN WHEN SIG'S SISTER ANNA RETURNS, THE ODDS AREN'T REALLY IMPROVED.

REVOLVER AND NOW, 11 YEARS LATER, HERE IS THE GIANT PSYCHOPATH, WILLING TO SHOOT ONE OR BOTH OF ANDERSON'S OFFSPRING TO GET THE GOLD HE THINKS IS HIS RIGHT. SIG HAS ONLY HIS FATHER'S SECRET GUN TO RELY ON, AND GRADUALLY A PLAN FORMS FOR HOW TO DEFEAT THE GIANT, BY USING HIS FATHER'S WEAPON, WHILE ABIDING BY HIS MOTHER'S PACIFIST RELIGION.