

I wasn't aware of that, previously – because I'd not read your earlier works – although of course I (and everybody else I know) has at least heard of Android Karenina and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and those other titles, sure.

It's good, first off, because you know how to write.

The way you describe routine things breaking down and social constructs crumbling in light of the imminent and unfathomably destructive asteroidal impact, it's so damned good, Winters. The way you describe what's happening to society in general and to the community of Concord, New Hampshire, in particular – where your straitlaced protagonist Hank Palace is a newly promoted detective on the local police force. Because my wife had checked it out from the library, and I saw it lying around the house, and I was like, "Oh, yeah, I heard about that thing when it came out. As sure as the asteroid heading toward Earth is going to wipe out humanity when it finally arrives at the end of your apocalyptic The Last Policeman trilogy, you, sir, are fucking killing me.īecause I read The Last Policeman, the first book in your series.
