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. 2182 kHz combines the
white-knuckle adventure of The Perfect Storm with the dark humor and
deadpan wit of Chuck Palahniuk to create an absorbing tale of
search-and-rescue. David Masiel introduces us to a compelling
antihero who is only one step away from either destruction or
salvation.From the Hardcover edition.
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