The Last Policeman

What’s the point of investigating murders if we’re all going to die soon?
Detective Hank Pelas asks himself that question ever since the appearance of asteroid 2011GV1. There’s no hope. Collision is only six months away.
“The Last Policeman” is a stunning portrait of pre-apocalyptic United States of America. The economy plunges into the abyss, and the harvest rots in the fields. Churches and synagogues are full of people. People all over the world forget about work—but Hank Pelas doesn’t. He investigates a hanging case in a city where there are dozens of suicides every week, because this case looks suspicious, and Pelas doesn’t care to look away.
The first novel in the trilogy “The Last Policeman” is a detective story on the edge of the apocalypse. Pelas’s investigation unfolds under the growing shadow of 2011GV1, and before us arise questions more important than his job. What is civilization based on? What is the price of life? What would we do if we had only days left to live?