<i>The Last Policeman</i> received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews. <br> <br>Now Detective Hank Palace returns in <i>Countdown City</i>, the second volume of the <i>Last Policeman </i>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.<br> <br>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 <i>gone</i>. 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.<br> <br><i>Countdown City</i> presents another fascinating mystery set on brink of an apocalypse--and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond "whodunit." <i>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?</i>