The Last Policeman
By Ben H. Winters
Quirk Books
Paperback | eBook
Release date: July 2012

It’s science fiction! It’s crime fiction! It’s a”¦sci-cri! The Last Policeman is the latest thrilling novel by New York Times best-selling author Ben H. Winters and you can watch the trailer for the book here below.

Henry Palace has just made detective after a brief career as a patrolman with the Concord Police Department. He’s one of many officers who’ve been bumped up the chain of command as the higher-ranking leave their posts in droves. What’s driving their accelerated career paths is a giant asteroid 2011GV1 named Maia and it’s on a confirmed trajectory.

By now everyone knows Maia has a 100 percent chance of slamming into Earth. No matter where it lands, the fallout will cause massive worldwide devastation. With Doomsday only six months away, many people decide to check every item off their bucket list; some turn to drugs, some to religion, while many others are committing suicide.