An asteroid is barreling toward earth. Everyone has just weeks to live. But Hank Palace is still trying to keep a semblance of order and purpose. In Countdown City, the second book in the Last Policeman trilogy, an old friend comes to him for help finding her missing husband.
What could have been a simple missing person investigation is exponentially complicated by the state of societal breakdown in these last days. Hank tracks him down, discovers the husband's justice-fueled quest, and cracks the case--sort of. It's a hodgepodge. Then throw in his sometimes-crazy sister's ideas about government conspiracies, and the evidence that she might be on to something, and it gets a little wilder.
I didn't like this book as well as the first, but I have to admit it left me with enough questions and curiosity that now I have to find out the fate of civilization in the third book. World of Trouble, coming up next.
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