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The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters

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Also by Ben H. Winters:

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The Quiet Boy, December 2022
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The Quiet Boy, May 2021
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The Last Policeman, June 2013
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Android Karenina, June 2010
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THE LAST POLICEMAN
By: Ben H. Winters


Quirk Books
June 2013
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Featuring: Hank Palace
ISBN: 1594746745
EAN: 9781594746741
Kindle: B0076Q1GW2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

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 jobβ€”but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every weekβ€”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 β€œwhodunit.” 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?