Adult Thriller novel, late 1990's/early 2000's? Guy tries to stop terrorists(?) from spilling nuclear Chernobyl contamination into the sea, ocean currents would spread it all over the world. Radiation sickness in forest/swamp?

[Alex]

I would have read this book around 2008/2009ish, but it was from a bag of paperbacks at my grandmother's, so the book was older than that - I think it was late 90's or early 00's. The physical book was a cheap grocery-store type of paperback. I think it could have been written by Dean Koontz or John Grisham or "that type" of prolific thriller writer.

The plot follows a guy who is trying to stop someone (I think terrorists, but I'm not sure) who planned to somehow sabotage the Chernobyl containment in order to dump all the radioactive contamination into the sea. I remember the character realizing that the exact spot they planned to dump it would carry it all over the world because of ocean currents.

I remember a scene where the MC is walking through a contaminated forest/swamp? type of area, and he has one of those clip-on dosimeters, but it's already beyond maxed out and he's getting radiation sickness. I think there was a female scientist with him at some point (I think she may have been the deuteragonist), possibly for this scene.

The book doesn't really have anything to do with the Chernobyl disaster itself per say, Chernobyl is really just a sort of plot point as a thing for bad guys to threaten the world with.

[Alex]

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