Beschreibung
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 and winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award.
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?
Rezension
I always appreciate novels that have new and interesting approaches to traditional genres, and Ben H. Winters two novels featuring Hank Palace fill the bill. Nancy Pearl, NPR
Winters is brilliant in conveying the ways in which people look for their best impulses but often end up as the victims of other people s most base instincts. Toronto Star
Don t miss this series! Sci Fi Magazine
Winters is a deft storyteller who moves his novel effortlessly from its intriguing setup to a thrilling, shattering conclusion. Los Angeles Review of Books
One of the best mysteries I ve read in such a long time. Nancy Pearl, KUOW
Winters s work shines. Locus
The don t lose hope ending is slam bang, setting us up for the final-final installment. Florida Times-Union
A precise, calendar-driven doom casts a shadow over the series, a planet-killer asteroid that the Earth can t duck, making this an existential policier. The Sunbreak
A thrilling and contagious read. Fayetteville Flyer
Gripping. The Free Lance-Star
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
Praise for The Last Policeman
Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original
One of Slate s Best Books of 2012
"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series." John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns
Winters s apocalyptic detective story contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural. New York Times Book Review
An appealing hybrid of the best of science fiction and crime fiction. The Washington Post
In his acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Winters showed off his mastery of edgy, sardonic wit there s nothing like an asteroid speeding toward Earth to bring out the black humor in people. Newsday
