Atomic City Crime Story — Ray Nelson

When a Hanford Patrol officer is killed and dumped in a reactor pond, his friend and Watch Commander is on the hunt to find out who did it and why. As he digs deeper he uncovers secrets that lie below the surface of this seemingly perfect government town. Set in 1952 at the height of the Cold War, and against the background of the largest plutonium production site in the world this story details life inside one of the network of facilities that stretched from Los Alamos and Oak Ridge to the atomic testing grounds of the Pacific.