In an isolated cabin in an Arctic wilderness, 14yearold Sig is alone with a corpse his father, who has fallen through the ice on the lake outside and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then, out of the Arctic darkness, comes a stranger a terrifying giant of a man claiming that Sigs father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and threatening awful violence if Sig doesnt reveal the golds whereabouts. Sig knows nothing about the gold, but he does know that theres a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabins storeroom a gun that his father had said would protect him, but which his mother had abhorred. Revolver alternates between the lonely cabin and events during the Alaska Gold Rush ten years earlier, gradually unspooling the mystery of the stolen gold and the terrifying stranger, and building to a climax that turns on whether and why Sig will use the hidden gun.
