Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 304 pages
- Published by: St. Martin's Press May 27, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0312371594
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312371593
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
Praise for
Spider Mountain:“Full of imaginative plotting touches . . . fast-paced.”
---Publishers Weekly“One of the crime genre’s more original and memorable creations . . . a mother-cum-crime-lord with a heart forged out of cold steel. Grinny is a welcome change from the usual sort of thriller villain.”
---Booklist“The stuff of series heroes . . . a battle royal.”
---Kirkus Reviews Praise for
The Cat Dancers:“
The Cat Dancers showcases P. T. Deutermann’s growth as a suspense novelist of the highest order. He crafts a gripping tale of men caught up in a shocking police investigation that transforms the world of ordinary police work into a spellbinding novel of suspense with universal appeal. I’ve been a Deutermann fan since his first novel,
Scorpion in the Sea, and this one is quite possibly his best.”
---Nelson DeMille,
New York Times bestselling author of
Up Country and
Night Fall“Relentless, exciting, and gripping—
The Cat Dancers sinks its claws in and doesn’t let go.”
---Jeff Lindsay, bestselling author of
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Product Description
I remembered it from high school chemistry, one of those experiments where we made hydrogen. It was more of an acidic sensation on the palate than a real smell, but I recognized it. The pile of spent fuel at the bottom was beginning to outgas. Next would come the fire to end all fires. . . .A private detective working in Wilmington, North Carolina, is found dead in a gas-station restroom, apparently poisoned. But when her body sets off radiation alarms in the pathologist’s office, suspicion falls on the nearby Helios nuclear power plant, a heavily guarded facility with supposedly failsafe procedures.
As the FBI, local police, and the power plant’s own security team investigate, ex-cop Cam Richter, head of the agency that employed the dead woman, begins his own inquiries. What was his detective investigating? And how could one human being be poisoned by radiation without others being exposed?
Cam soon finds himself up against powerful forces that will stop at nothing to keep the plant’s problems secret. The most vulnerable part of Helios is its “moonpool”—the radioactive storage pond that cools spent but volatile reactor fuel and must be kept completely full. Racing against time, Cam discovers an inside threat, which will use the plant’s own systems to begin an unstoppable, disastrous sequence of events.
The Moonpool is a terrific thrill-ride, filled with insider details about the ultimate terrorist threat and how it might unfold.
Reader Reviews
I was pleased to see that Deutermann is back to form after the disappointing Cat Dancers and the satisfying-but-stereotyped Spider Mountain. In the third Cam Richter novel, the retired detective gets sucked into strange events at a Wilmington nuclear power plant. And it's so nice to read a book about nuclear power by someone who has done his homework! No "Oooh, those atoms are SCARY" nonsense about meltdowns and China syndrome and so forth. I still have problems accepting Cam's magical German shepherds, Frick and Frack... my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go that far. But this is a solid thriller that was well worth reading. Enjoy!
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