The first meeting between Lee Scoresby the aviator and gunslinger and Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear, occurring shortly after Lee crash-lands the balloon he recently won in a poker game in the Arctic township of Novy Odense. He immediately becomes involved with a crooked company and an impounded cargo, his sense of decency and fair play compelling him to get into a deadly struggle with a seasoned killer.

Absolutely fantastic, I could defintieyl read stories of Lee and Iorek fighting bad guys on the Barents Sea till the cows come home.