Man On Ice, Hawksley - B-

            This thriller is borderline absurd, but kinda fun. Rake Ozenna is an Eskimo serving as a Captain in the Alaskan National Guard and a resident of miniscule Little Diomode in the Bering Sea a few miles from a larger island that is Russian. After a decade away, he returns with his American fiance, the day the the Russians come up with some nonsensical theory of why they are entitled take over the island. An international crisis of the first order is staved off by a handful of people in Washington, and of course, Rake. There are some preposterous twists and turns, but also an interesting series of intriguing insights into the life, ideas, customs and beliefs of the Eskimos on the US/Russian borderlands.