Revolver, by Marcus Sedgewic,is a novel about a boy called Sig Andersson who finds his father, dead, on a frozen lake in the Arctic Circle where he lives.

He is alone and then there is a knock on the door and a man who claims that Einar Andersson -- Sig’s father -- owes him something.

Sig starts to think about the Revolver, hidden behind the coffee in the storeroom.

I really like the way that Sig has all of these flashbacks, because when the book starts you have no idea of what kind of a man Einar is; but the flash-backs really capture him, his life and his personality.

‘You might never know what it was that killed you. You might not see it coming; it might strike like the proverbial lightning bolt from the blue.

Or you might have some inkling of your doom. You might suspect the cause; that it is your greed, or your lust for revenge, or your blind faith that is to be your undoing.   

Or you might see it clearly, running over the horizon towards you. Death on a pale horse.’

I think that this paragraph really captures the flavour of this novel, and its moral issues, that it discusses in great depth.