On Fenris things are hot...at least during the 1,000 hour days, at night the cold will kill. The temp's also riding in the Tallow wax industry and it's near the boiling point. Steve Ravick controls the Hunter's Cooperative and has a prosperous business going of embezzling much of the profits and he's not too happy when a group of hunters tries to bypass the Coop thereby decreasing his cash flow. Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of Paratime alternate history tales.