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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Randall D. St. Claire’s The Frequency follows Bronx Rousselle, a Warroad, Minnesota pawnbroker and ex-Marine whose quiet shop becomes the start of a hunt after Heather Li arrives with her drugged brother, George Tikaani, alongside a box of inherited Inuit artifacts. George has escaped from The Acropolis, a mental-health facility where he says he was held after men came looking for his great-grandfather’s maps and letters. Those papers tell of Atanarjuat Tikaani, a Greenland shaman who saw light fall from the sky and found a whale turned to stone. When a killer tears through Bronx’s shop before his home is hit, Bronx follows the documents toward Greenland, where Inuit testimony begins to meet Nazi engineering and a modern energy company built around power no one understands.
Randall D. St. Claire’s The Frequency is a terrific conspiracy thriller, and the author shows real skill in Bronx’s hard-edged voice. His sarcasm is funny, but it also explains why helping Heather and George unsettles him; the job asks for loyalty from a man who has built his life around clean transactions. The speculative side is handled just as well. Atanarjuat Tikaani’s old account of a stone whale first reads like family legend, then the author turns the same material into the route toward Greenland’s hidden technology. Malina Quinook is my favorite part of that turn, since her translation of the Inuit papers gives the mystery a cultural footing while cutting straight through Bronx’s defenses. The author writes with such skill, and the story is loaded with personality. This is a science thriller worth every moment spent on the page. Very highly recommended.
