Countdown City

The Last Policeman Book II

Ben H. Winters

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QUIRK BOOKS
01 November 2013

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Philip K Dick Award

Series: The Last Policeman Trilogy

""A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction.""-Alexandra Alter, The New York Times

Detective Hank Palace returns in the second in the speculative mystery trilogy set on the brink of the apocalypse.

There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband.

Brett Cavatone disappeared without a trace-an easy feat in a world with no phones, no cars, and no way to tell whether someone's gone ""bucket list"" or just gone. With society falling to shambles, Hank pieces together what few clues he can, on a search that leads him from a college-campus-turned-anarchist-encampment to a crumbling coastal landscape where anti-immigrant militia fend off ""impact zone"" refugees.

Countdown City presents another fascinating mystery set on brink of an apocalypse--and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond ""whodunit."" What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is collapsing all around you?

By: Ben H. Winters
Imprint: QUIRK BOOKS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9781594746260
ISBN 10: 1594746265
Series: The Last Policeman Trilogy
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 November 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ben H. Winters is a New York Times-bestselling author and an Edgar Award nominee. His novels include Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Quirk 2009; 10+ weeks on the NYT Best Seller List), the Edgar-Award nominated YA novel The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman (HarperCollins 2009), and Bedbugs (Quirk 2011), which was hailed by Vanity Fair as a diabolical tale of paranoia. Ben lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children.

Reviews for Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II

. .. Winters's work shines. -- Locus <br> <br> Don't miss this series! -- Sci Fi magazine<br> <br> As with the first Hank Palace novel (this is volume 2 of a projected trilogy), the mystery element is strong, and the strange, preapocalyptic world is highly imaginative and also very plausible--it's easy to think that the impending end of the world might feel very much like this. Genre mash-up master Winters is at it again. -- Booklist