RH Kelly: OK, we are excited to talk today about The Last Policeman your first book in your end-of-the-world trilogy– welcome! RH Erica: Excited to chat, Ben! Thanks for joining us! 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. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. Ben chatted with librarians about his gripping new novel, The Last Policeman which is the first book in an end-of-the-world trilogy. Winters join us at Library Journal’s The Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond virtual conference. All of humanity now, every person in the world - we're like a bunch of little kids, in deep, deep trouble, just waiting till our dad gets home.We were very excited to have Ben H. Now it's March, and sometime in September, 2011L47J will slam into our planet and kill half the population immediately, and most of the rest in the miserable decades that follow. When it first appeared, 2011L47J was just a speck, somewhere beyond Jupiter's orbit.īy mid-October it revealed itself to be seven kilometers in diameter, and on a crash course with the Earth. Government services are beginning to slip into disarray, crops are left to rot. Others have gone the other way, roaming the streets, enjoying what pleasures they can before the grand finale.

A lot of folks spend their days on bended knee, praying to Jesus or Allah or whoever they think might save them. Stopped selling real estate stopped working at hospitals stopped slinging hash or driving cabs or trading high-yield securities. Most people have stopped doing whatever it is they did before the asteroid 2011L47J hovered into view.

What's the point in solving murders when we're going to die soon, anyway? Hank Palace, a homicide detective in Concord, New Hampshire, asks this question every day. Winters, offers readers something they've never seen before: A police procedural set on the brink of an apocalypse. In The Last Policeman, Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Ben H. From start to very satisfying finish one of the most amazing trilogies Ronald has ever come across!

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters