num_pages: 316
description: There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth and Detective Hank 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 someones 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. The second novel in the critically acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy Countdown City presents a 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?
language: English
title: Countdown City
publisher: Quirk Books