Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy 2)

With 77 days remaining before a deadly asteroid strikes Earth, Detective Hank Palace finds himself unemployed as the Concord police force comes under U.S. Justice Department control. His crime-solving career appears finished until a woman from his past asks him to locate her missing husband, Brett Cavatone, who vanished without a trace in a world without phones, cars, or reliable communication. Unable to determine whether Cavatone has pursued his own plans or simply disappeared, Palace investigates using whatever clues he can find. His search takes him from a college campus that has become an anarchist encampment to a deteriorating coastal region where anti-immigrant militia groups confront refugees from the impact zone. As society disintegrates around him, Palace grapples with questions extending far beyond identifying a culprit: what obligations do people have to one another, and what does civilization mean when it is actively collapsing?