Ben H. Winters
Medium Paperback
Some wear
There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Hank 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.
The second novel in the critically acclaimed��
Last Policeman��trilogy,��
Countdown City��presents a fascie again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond "whodunit."ýý
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