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Countdown City By Ben H. Winters

Countdown City by Ben H. Winters


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Set three months before the deadly asteroid 2011GV1 is due to hit Earth, this title chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace.

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Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II by Ben H. Winters

Set three months before the deadly asteroid 2011GV1 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. Hank's search leads him to a visibly collapsing East Coast landscape where anti-immigrant militia patrol the shores, fending off droves of people fleeing the impact zone of the asteroid.

Countdown City Reviews

It's funny, it's thrilling, it's crazy, it's interesting.-Jenna Bush Hager, TODAY with Hoda & Jenna

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.-Nancy Pearl, NPR

Winters is brilliant in conveying the ways in which people look for their best impulses but often end up as the victims of other people's most base instincts.-Toronto Star

Don't miss this series!-Sci Fi Magazine

Winters is a deft storyteller who moves his novel effortlessly from its intriguing setup to a thrilling, shattering conclusion.-Los Angeles Review of Books

One of the best mysteries I've read in such a long time.-Nancy Pearl, KUOW

Winters's work shines.-Locus

The 'don't lose hope' ending is slam bang, setting us up for the 'final-final' installment.-Florida Times-Union

A precise, calendar-driven doom casts a shadow over the series, a planet-killer asteroid that the Earth can't duck, making this an existential policier.-The Sunbreak

A thrilling and contagious read.-Fayetteville Flyer

Gripping.-The Free Lance-Star

Highly imaginative and also very plausible-it's easy to think that the impending end of the world might feel very much like this. Genre mash-up master Winters is at it again.-Booklist

Through it all Palace remains a likeable hero for end times.-PublishersWeekly.com

Praise for The Last Policeman
Winner of the 2013 Edgar (R) Award Winner for Best Paperback Original
One of Slate's Best Books of 2012

[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

Winters's apocalyptic detective story contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural.-New York Times Book Review

An appealing hybrid of the best of science fiction and crime fiction.-The Washington Post

In his acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Winters showed off his mastery of edgy, sardonic wit - there's nothing like an asteroid speeding toward Earth to bring out the black humor in people.-Newsday

About Ben H. Winters

Ben H. Winters is a New York Times-bestselling author and an Edgar Award nominee. His novels include Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Quirk 2009; 10+ weeks on the NYT Best Seller List), the Edgar-Award nominated YA novel The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman (HarperCollins 2009), and Bedbugs (Quirk 2011), which was hailed by Vanity Fair as a diabolical tale of paranoia. Ben lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children.

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CIN1594746265VG
9781594746260
1594746265
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II by Ben H. Winters
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Quirk Books
20130716
320
N/A
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