World of Trouble

With only two weeks before an asteroid strikes Earth, Detective Hank Palace leaves safety behind to find his missing sister and solve one final mystery in this gripping finale to the award-winning Last Policeman trilogy.“A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction.”—Alexandra Alter, The New York Times With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force. But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank’s safety is only relative, and his only relative—his sister Nico—isn’t safe. Soon, it’s clear that there’s more than one earth-shattering revelation on the horizon, and it’s up to Hank to solve the puzzle before time runs out...for everyone.Blending detective fiction, police procedural, dystopian suspense, and apocalyptic science fiction, Ben H. Winters brings the Edgar Award–winning Last Policeman series to its explosive conclusion with a mystery about family, duty, hope, and what it means to keep searching for answers when there may be no tomorrow.