The Last Policeman
2012 • 316 pages

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What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?

Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.

The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares.

The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?


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The Last Policeman is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Ben H. Winters.

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The Last Policeman
#2
Il conto alla rovescia
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World of Trouble

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I enjoyed this book, a mystery wrapped in the apocalypse.

June 1, 2017

Very entertaining and well-written. I'll be reading the other books in this series.

June 15, 2021

Hot death from the sky
he has more pressing concerns 
suicide, or not.

October 12, 2017

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