Worst Case, Newman - B

              An airline pilot has a coronary while the 2nd officer is out of the cockpit. The plane crashes about 30 miles from Minneapolis,  hits a nuclear facility, and sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events. The only question is how bad it will be. It appears to be a level 7 event, on par with Fukushima and Chernobyl. The risk is that  the entire Mississippi River basin will be poisoned for a thousand years. People around the country panic trying to escape, markets crash and the whole world watches. Two people, the local fire chief and a woman who works for the US government, make the ultimate sacrifice and save the day. The author is a master at page turners and this one surely qualifies.