Countdown City

"Countdown City" is the second book in Winters' "The Last Policeman" trilogy. It's another mystery featuring Henry Palace, the former Concord detective who is still investigating cases even though the world is about to end. In this book, the asteroid is only 77 days from colliding with the Earth, and Palace's case involves the missing husband of his nanny from childhood. People are still running away on bucket-list adventures, hopelessly committing suicide, hording stashes of food and ammunition. The economy has collapsed, electricity is out, and running water is coming close to shutting down. But Palace still has an insane commitment to getting the job done, even though the old police force has been disbanded and the town is being protected, barely, by scary federal police.

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