The Last Policeman
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008J9ENTS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 293 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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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?. There's no chance left. Churches and synagogues are packed. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. 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. No hope. What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. People all over the world are walking off the job - but not Hank Palace. What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die soon, anyway? The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace's investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we're confronted by hard questions way beyond "whodunit". The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields
Murder and an Extinction Level Event The Just-About-Average Ms. M Low-key, thoughtful tale of a new detective who decides an apparent suicide by hanging is really a murder, and goes to amazing lengths to prove it. So what, you say, because this plot point has been done to death--pun perhaps intended.Because suicides by hanging are a common occurrence these days, occasioned by the date certain--October 9--that a large asteroid will strike the earth. Why bother with a possible murder when there are less than six months left? Why care about the dead man, and what led to his demise when . "A Murder Investigation During the Apocalypse" according to Robert Bolton. Years ago I heard someone make the observation that our culture seems to be the only time in history that people romanticize the apocalypse. People often actively imagine what it would be like to live in the last days and how the end would come. I, however, suspect that the arrival of that day would in reality be met with fear and a great deal of panic. In the first volume of a trilogy, Ben H. Winters poses a similar scenario in his novel The Last Policeman.The novel opens six months before the end of the world as the . I love the basic premise of this and the others in I love the basic premise of this and the others in this trilogy (although I have only read this one). What do we do when apocalypse is imminent and we even know the date? Do we just go about our normal affairs and do our best? What would it really mean for the End to be Nigh? The concept is intriguing, but then it is then necessary to engage with the story and its main character and narrator, a dedicated policeman who wants to solve a case before it is too late. We are in Hanger Town, where the increasing number of sui