Ben Winters' The Last Policeman trilogy comes to an end in World of Trouble. Hank Palace's investigation in this third book is personal. With only days before the meteor is due to crash into the earth, Palace is desperate to find his sister Nico. As we learned in books 1 and 2, Nico has been a part of a group that believed a secret government plot was going to destroy the asteroid.
Palace teams up with his thief acquaintance from book 2 to go on a cross-country search. OK, I'll save you the trouble. He finds her but things don't work out like he thought they would. On the one hand, Winters brings together some of the themes and plot lines from the other two books. On the other hand, it's all very anticlimactic and dull. By the end I was cheering for the asteroid--come on, get this thing over with!
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