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Extraordinaryas well as brilliant, surprising, and, considering the circumstances, oddly uplifting. on There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Hank Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hanks days of solving crimes are overuntil a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband.Brett Cavatone disappeared without a tracean easy feat in a world with no phones, no cars, and no way to tell whether someones 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.The second novel in the Last Policeman trilogy, presents a fascinating mystery set on the brink of an apocalypseand 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?