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**"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns** Winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award ***The Last Policeman* received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original—along with plenty of glowing reviews. **  Now Detective Hank Palace returns in *Countdown City*, the second volume of the *Last Policeman *trilogy. 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 where anti-immigrant militia fend off “impact zone” refugees. *Countdown City* presents another fascinating mystery set on brink of an apocalypse—and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond "whodunit." *What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is collapsing all around you?* Read More