{"id":5897,"date":"2012-07-03T01:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2012-07-03T01:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T05:47:22","slug":"hard-copy-the-last-policeman-by-ben-h-winters-hits-shelves-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5897","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters Hits Shelves Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s the point in solving murders if we\u2019re all going to die? Detective Hank Palace has \"\"<\/a>asked this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. Several kilometers wide, it\u2019s on a collision course with planet Earth, with just six precious months until impact.<\/p>\n

The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. Industry is grinding to a halt. Most people have abandoned their jobs. But not Hank Palace. As our story opens, he\u2019s investigating the latest suicide in a city that\u2019s full of suicides\u2014only this one feels wrong. This one feels like homicide. And Palace is the only one who cares. What\u2019s the point in solving murders if we\u2019re all going to die?<\/p>\n

The Last Policeman offers a story we\u2019ve never read before: A police procedural set on the brink of an apocalypse. What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?<\/p>\n

BEN H. WINTERS is a New York Times best-selling author (Quirk\u2019s Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters) and an Edgar Award nominee (for the HarperCollins YA novel The Secret Life of Ms. Finkelman). His most recent novel, Bedbugs (Quirk, 2011), was hailed by Vanity Fair as a \u201cdiabolical tale of paranoia.\u201d He lives in Indianapolis, IN.<\/p>\n

Check out the website<\/a>\u00a0and watch the trailer .
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