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Countdown City Paperback - 2013

by Ben H. Winters

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"A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction."--Alexandra Alter, The New York Times Detective Hank Palace returns in the second in the speculative mystery trilogy set on the brink of the apocalypse. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective 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 someone's 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. Countdown City presents another 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?

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  • Title Countdown City
  • Author Ben H. Winters
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Quirk Books, New York
  • Date 2013-07-16
  • ISBN 9781594746260 / 1594746265
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Vermont
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013930159
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

An NPR Best Book of 2013
 
“I always appreciate novels that have new and interesting approaches to traditional genres, and Ben H. Winters' two novels featuring Hank Palace fill the bill.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR
 
“Winters is brilliant in conveying the ways in which people look for their best impulses but often end up as the victims of other people’s most base instincts.”—Toronto Star

“...one of the best mysteries I've read in a long time.”—Nancy Pearl, KUOW

“...the 'don’t lose hope' ending is slam bang, setting us up for the 'final-final' installment.”—Florida Times-Union

“A precise, calendar-driven doom casts a shadow over the series, a planet-killer asteroid that the Earth can’t duck, making this an existential policier.”—The Sunbreak

“…a thrilling and contagious read.”—Fayetteville Flyer

“Through it all Palace remains a likeable hero for end times..."—PublishersWeekly.com

“Winters is a deft storyteller who moves his novel effortlessly from its intriguing setup to a thrilling, shattering conclusion.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

“...gripping...”—The Free Lance-Star

“... Winters's work shines.”—Locus
 
“Don't miss this series!”—Sci Fi magazine
 
“As with the first Hank Palace novel (this is volume 2 of a projected trilogy), the mystery element is strong, and the strange, preapocalyptic world is highly imaginative and also very plausible—it’s easy to think that the impending end of the world might feel very much like this. Genre mash-up master Winters is at it again.”—Booklist

Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2013, Page 44
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2013, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/01/2013, Page 89
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/12/2013, Page 0

About the author

Ben H. Winters is the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Quiet Boy, Golden State, Underground Airlines, the Last Policeman trilogy, and the mash-up novel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Ben has also worked extensively in television; he was a writer on the FX cult hit Legion as well as Manhunt on Apple TV+, and he is the creator of the CBS drama Tracker. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.
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