Where a fire-blackened desert once stood, golden cities flourish in verdant fields.īut the realms of Man face a new threat - an ancient sorcerer slaughters the rightful King of Yaskatha before the unbelieving eyes of his son, young Prince D’zan. Now, the Giant-King has slain the last of the Serpents and ushered in an era of untold peace and prosperity. Under the watchful eye of the Giants, the kingdoms of Men rose to power.
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Grand Central Publishing Arrow Icon Arrow icon.For Winters, the beauty is in the details rather than the plot’s grim main thrust. “A promising kickoff to a planned trilogy. “ The Last Policeman succeeds both as a mystery, with a quirky detective and an intriguing whodunit, and as a piece of apocalyptic speculative fiction.”- Sacramento News & Review Dick Award, Winters took a standard science fiction trope - the final months before an asteroid slams into Earth - and mixed it with some of the conventions of the detective novel, imbuing his apocalyptic scenario with an extra measure of urgency and poignancy.”- The San Francisco Chronicle “In his Last Policeman trilogy, for which he won both the Edgar Award and the Philip K. “This is a book that asks big questions about civilization, community, desperation and hope.”- io9 “Full of compelling twists, likable characters, and a sad beauty, The Last Policeman is a gem.”- San Francisco Book Review “ The Last Policeman is extraordinary-as well as brilliant, surprising, and, considering the circumstances, oddly uplifting.”- Mystery Scene “I’m eager to read the other books, and expect that they’ll keep me as enthralled as the first one did.”-Mark Frauenfedler, Boing Boing “A sturdy, functional, entertaining page-turner.”-Greg Cook, “Winters’s writing is funny, surprisingly tender, and thoroughly human.”- Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine “Ben Winters makes noir mystery even darker: his latest novel sets a despondent detective on a suspicious suicide case-while an asteroid hurtles toward earth.”. “I’m in the middle of it and can’t put the dang thing down.”- USA Today’s Pop Candy “In his acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Winters showed off his mastery of edgy, sardonic wit - there’s nothing like an asteroid speeding toward Earth to bring out the black humor in people.”- Newsday " weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."-John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns “An appealing hybrid of the best of science fiction and crime fiction.”- The Washington Post “Winters’s apocalyptic detective story contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural.” -New York Times Book Review Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award for Best Paperback Original As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week-except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. People all over the world are walking off the job-but not Hank Palace. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?ĭetective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award for Best Paperback Original! “A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction.” –Alexandra Alter, The New York Times