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OMG!! Written by Ben H. Winters, and published by Quirk Books in Philadelphia in 2014, this book is the third, and final, novel in the Last Policeman series.

The world is about to end! An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth, and those who have not committed suicide or fled to the tropics, are behaving irrationally and with great paranoia. Henry (Hank) Palace is a relatively inexperienced police detective from Concord, New Hampshire. He is searching for his eccentric sister Nico, who believes that the disaster can be avoided by using a cleverly-placed nuclear bomb to change the course of the asteroid. In this volume of the story, Hank and his sidekick Cortez, a thief, have traveled by bicycle to Rotary, Ohio to search for Nico, who has run away with a cult of believers that hopes to avert the disaster.

Part One and Chapter 1 of the story begin on Wednesday, September 27, although there is a brief prologue that is not obviously relevant at first, and that takes place on Wednesday, August 22. The asteroid is scheduled to strike the earth on October 4.

This novel is a continuation of the story that began with the first book of the trilogy, The Last Policeman, and I believe it is the best of the three. The action is fairly steady, but some of the plot points seem a bit unrealistic, like riding bicycles more than 800 miles while pulling a little red wagon behind one of them, and not having the wheels fall off.

Some readers will find the ending to be a bit surprising. I know I did. We find out that things are not as they have seemed for all three volumes of the series. Readers will enjoy this story more if they are able to read all three books in the order intended by the author. This is because he refers to names and events that appeared and took place in the first two volumes. I think I would have been quite lost if I had simply tried to read this story without having read the other two stories, also. The trilogy is really one big story.

I liked this novel, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to science fiction lovers — especially those who might enjoy reading about a dystopian America facing the end of the world. Even fans of police novels might like this story. Detective Henry Palace is, after all, a policeman.


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World of Trouble The Last Policeman Book III The Last Policeman Trilogy Ben H Winters Books Reviews

This is the third installment of Ben Winters' The Last Policeman Trilogy.

The trilogy opened with Henry Palace serving as a police detective in Concord, New Hampshire. The world has learned that a meteor may soon slam into the Earth, ending all life. The background of the first book was the slow unraveling of society while some, including our protagonist, Henry Palace, insist on staying at their job, keeping things running while they can.

The second book set up the possibility of a conspiracy to stop the meteor. Society is almost over. Henry has been "retired" and people are trying to find a way to scrape through the final months as they wait for the meteor that they now know will strike the Earth in October. However, the plot involves a very serviceable mystery story where Palace searches for a missing person and solves a murder.

Both stories, and the third, as well, are noteworthy for the fact that while society is collapsing and humanity is facing extinction, Henry insists on focusing on what are fairly prosaic mysteries. It seems clear to me that Henry is using his devotion to solving mysteries as a coping mechanism, a distraction from the end of meaning.

This book takes Henry and Cortez, the hoarder from Book 2, to Rotary, Ohio, in search of Henry's sister. What he finds is an attempted murder and a mystery that he doggedly sets out to solve during the last seven days of human existence.

The writing is excellent. The characters and the mystery captivate. We journey with Henry as he witnesses the end of days.

More than that, I will not share lest I give away spoilers.
The trilogy is well-written, with good pacing and a decent amount of interesting police procedural plot lines. The main character is well-drawn and realized, and the supporting characters are sketched out well enough to not be cartoons in most cases, which tends to be a problem with a lot of police procedural novels. On this level the series works well and is worth the read.

But you should not be reading this because it is a decent police procedural series. You should read it because it is a fascinating and scary mediation on what it would be like to face the end of the world.

Overlying and under-girding everything is the certain impact of a dinosaur-extinction-sized asteroid about to strike the earth and end all organized life forms for millions of years. Winters does a great job of putting the reader into the mind frame of waiting for the impact. He riffles through many different ways people react to the knowledge that on a specific day, at a specific time, their lives will absolutely end. He shows the slow-motion disintegration of society, the various means of irrational denial, and has it all accelerate as the asteroid comes nearer. You are there with the first person protagonist; Winters drags you into the frame and you start to live under the shadow of the asteroid yourself, disagreeing with the narrator's choices at times, arguing to make choices you would be making instead.

I rated this a four and not a five mainly because the second novel dragged a little bit, which is typical for trilogies it seems. And some of the plot lines and characters were a little bit fanastical, although in the face of the end of the world perhaps they were dead on.

The final book really brought a lot of it together, And even if you know how the world will end, there are still choices to be made in how to write about it, and Winters ended it well.
OMG!! Written by Ben H. Winters, and published by Quirk Books in Philadelphia in 2014, this book is the third, and final, novel in the Last Policeman series.

The world is about to end! An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth, and those who have not committed suicide or fled to the tropics, are behaving irrationally and with great paranoia. Henry (Hank) Palace is a relatively inexperienced police detective from Concord, New Hampshire. He is searching for his eccentric sister Nico, who believes that the disaster can be avoided by using a cleverly-placed nuclear bomb to change the course of the asteroid. In this volume of the story, Hank and his sidekick Cortez, a thief, have traveled by bicycle to Rotary, Ohio to search for Nico, who has run away with a cult of believers that hopes to avert the disaster.

Part One and Chapter 1 of the story begin on Wednesday, September 27, although there is a brief prologue that is not obviously relevant at first, and that takes place on Wednesday, August 22. The asteroid is scheduled to strike the earth on October 4.

This novel is a continuation of the story that began with the first book of the trilogy, The Last Policeman, and I believe it is the best of the three. The action is fairly steady, but some of the plot points seem a bit unrealistic, like riding bicycles more than 800 miles while pulling a little red wagon behind one of them, and not having the wheels fall off.

Some readers will find the ending to be a bit surprising. I know I did. We find out that things are not as they have seemed for all three volumes of the series. Readers will enjoy this story more if they are able to read all three books in the order intended by the author. This is because he refers to names and events that appeared and took place in the first two volumes. I think I would have been quite lost if I had simply tried to read this story without having read the other two stories, also. The trilogy is really one big story.

I liked this novel, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to science fiction lovers — especially those who might enjoy reading about a dystopian America facing the end of the world. Even fans of police novels might like this story. Detective Henry Palace is, after all, a policeman.