Winters, B: Countdown City
(Sprache: Englisch)
"[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...
Winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award
The Last Policeman received the...
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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 TownsWinner 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?
Autoren-Porträt von Ben H. Winters
Ben H. Winters is an Edgar Award winner and a New York Times best-selling author. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ben H. Winters
- 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House LCC US
- ISBN-10: 1594746265
- ISBN-13: 9781594746260
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.07.2013
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Englisch
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."..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" "Through it all Palace remains a likeable hero for end times..."--"PublishersWeekly.com""Winters is a deft storyteller who moves his novel effortlessly from its intriguing setup to a thrilling, shattering conclusion."--"Los Angeles Review of Books"."..gripping..."--"The Free Lance-Star".".. Winters's work shines."--"Locus" "Don't miss this series!"--"Sci Fi "magazine "As with the first Hank Palace novel (this is volume 2 of a projected trilogy), the mystery element is strong, and the strange, preapocalyptic world is 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"
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