The Moonpool - Cam Richter, Bk 3 Author:P. T. Deutermann North Carolina freelance investigator Cam Richter is a retired cop who runs Hide and Seek Investigations, a PI firm staffed by other ex-cops. One of Cam's operatives, Allie Gardner, falls ill in Wilmington, N.C., while doing some philandering-husband divorce work. Soon she's dead on the floor of a gas station bathroom, burned from the in... more »side out from having ingested a pint of highly radioactive water. (the source appears to be the nearby Helios nuclear power plant) When Cam looks into Allie's death, he winds up being hired by Aristotle Quartermain, chief of security at Helios, the local nuclear power station. Aiding Cam are his German shepherds, Frick and Frack.
Digging deeper, he uncovers a terrorist plot to release the water from the plant's "moonpool", the radioactive storage pond that cools the spent reactor fuel, thus creating a disaster similar to Chernobyl. Can Richter find the murderer and stop the catastrophe?
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