2182 kHz

Name: 2182 kHz
Author: David Masiel
ISBN: 0375506063

by David Masiel (2002)

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"By all accounts, Henry Seine should have packed it in long ago, certainly before he started scanning marine distress channels for fun. But sixteen-hour days spent hauling heavy cargo aboard tugs and icebreakers along the frozen arctic offshore (not to mention smoking copious amounts of Cannabis indica) can warp a man's sense of reality. Desperate for real human contact, he tunes the sideband radio to 2182 kHz (twenty-one eighty-two kilohertz), the international distress channel, in the vague hope of finding someone he can save.". "Soon, though, even the paycheck that fattens his wallet each season isn't enough to fix his interest. Seine journeys south, but weathers a capsizing that leaves his fellow crewmen dead. Unable to break from his old habits, and haunted by the ghosts of dead shipmates, he flies north for another season. One day, idly monitoring 2182, Seine catches a fading distress call from somewhere out in the circumpolar twilight. A scientist named Louis Moneymaker is trapped alone on an ice floe that threatens to melt beneath his feet. Cobbling together a motley rescue team - the frostbitten Wolf, a six-foot-eight Russian known as Big Man, a tattooed Eskimo nicknamed the Buff, and an intrepid, dark-eyed sailor named Julia - Seine travels farther north than he's ever gone, determined to save Moneymaker and exorcise his demons in one grand sweep."--BOOK JACKET.

Setting / LocationNew York City

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / Core2182 kHz Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Fiction & Literature Fiction Merchant mariners Rescue work Scientists Large type books Modern Era

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