revolver smmer post

In my first post about my book Revolver I finished by talking about Sig (the main character) and about how his dad is dead on the table frozen. This book goes back and forth from present time to past. It goes back to how Sig found his dad.
It was getting late on wash day when Sig's father was supposed to be home. Sig decided to go out and follow the trail to meet his father on his way home and ride the sled back with him. Sig noticed a black spot out on the ice of the frozen lake. He finished putting his ski's on and slowly walked across the ice checking the thickness with his stick. When he got to his frozen father he put together what had happened.
His father had gone across a thin section of ice and fell in waist deep. The sled dogs pulled him out and Sig saw that his father had taken his glove off. But why? Sig had seen the matches in is hand but no wood. Then he realized the sled was made of wood and the papers from the office he could have lit. The father (Einer) would have frozen before he made the mile ride home so he took the long shot chance at trying to start a fire but it did not work.
The most interesting thing I remember is that Einer when he was still alive told Sig that "a gun is not a weapon. It's an answer."
This is the first book I have read by Marcus Sedgwick and I think it will get more interesting as it goes.