Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II
by Ben H. Winters
Buy on AmazonSet three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is out of a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. It isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation.
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"So what would you do if you knew that Earth was going to be destroyed by an asteroid in less than three months? Would you go through your bucket list and do everything you’ve always wanted to do? Would you kill yourself so you won’t have to go through the apocalypse? Or would you, like rookie detective Hank Palace, formerly of the Concord, N.H., Police Department, go on going on, which means, in Hank’s case, agreeing to try to find an old friend’s missing husband, as well as dealing with the residue of family and relationship issues first introduced in the series opener, The Last Policeman. 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."
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