The Defect
Book description
Terrorists have infiltrated the staff of the Desert Canyons nuclear power station. They want to melt it down and spread radioactive waste all over Southern California. Think it can't happen today? Think again. At two in the morning in 2013, an unknown hooded person infiltrated a nuclear power plant in…
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I love nuclear terrorism plots, but most don’t really hold together. The minute details and timing in the countdown to the attack are the glue that holds this book together.
It takes a nuclear reactor expert even to know that some of these security measures exist. I like the way the bad guys get tripped up on little details as well as the way that the good guys use knowledge of the details to detect anomalies in the system and what could be causing them.
This is a strong, straightforward, manly writing style that keeps the temperature up and the…
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