Icerigger

Ethan Fortune was a simple salesman – knowledgeable, of course, also civilized, a sophisticated traveler between many worlds. But certainly he had never thought of himself as a hero. The banality of such an idea would have amused him.
Skua September, on the other hand (a giant of a man), had apparently never done anything of less than heroic stature – and expected the like of everyone else.
With the pair of them idiotically stranded on deadly, frozen Tran-ky-ky, along with an ill-assorted variety of others, Ethan Fortune suddenly found himself cast in the role of Leader.
He didn’t find it amusing at all…