Countdown City

by Ben H. Winters

Ebook, 2013

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½

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Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Science Fiction. HTML:�??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.   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 wh… (more)

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The asteroid is closer than when we last followed Detective Hank Palace in The Last Policeman—it’s just 77 days from hitting Earth and destroying the planet. Hank is now unemployed, forced into retirement, when a woman begs him to find her missing husband. And because Hank is a detective at
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heart, he’s got no choice. ... Ben H. Winters has a winner in this trilogy, and the middle book exceeds the pleasure of the first. Don’t wait until it’s too late to catch up on the Last Policeman trilogy—the end is coming!
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2013-07
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