Ben H. Winters is the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Quiet Boy, Golden State, Underground Airlines, the Last Policeman trilogy, and the mash-up novel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Ben has also worked extensively in television; he was a writer on the FX cult hit Legion as well as Manhunt on Apple TV+, and he is the creator of the CBS drama Tracker. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.
Nominated for the 2015 Edgar® Award for Best Paperback Original
“It’s funny, it’s thrilling, it’s crazy, it’s interesting.”—Jenna
Bush Hager, TODAY with Hoda & Jenna
“Stubborn, earnest, self-deprecating and decent, [Winters’s]
protagonist, Hank Palace, is a brilliantly realized character you
want to follow to the very end—and beyond.”—San Francisco
Chronicle
“Winters, a major talent, gives us the best realized world on the
verge of annihilation that this reviewer has seen since Cormac
McCarthy.”—Sci Fi Magazine
“Winters’ style is a slow burn....His cadence is a steady beat
rather than a roller coaster, and his words sparing and simple.
They will stay with you.” —William O’Connor, The Daily Beast
“Riveting entertainment.”—The A.V. Club
“World of Trouble is a page turner, a book that is
riveting and humane, suspenseful rather than frenetic, and moving
rather than depressing; and the key to it all is our guide through
this crumbling world. Palace is a brilliant creation, the
perfect hero for our eschatological age.”—Tor.com
“More than a shining example of how to write about the
apocalypse—it’s one of the most well-written mysteries of any
era...World of Trouble is a book you don’t want to miss.”—Paste
“That Winters can paint for us a world that is so bared-boned, raw
and honest is why this is one of the best books of the year so
far.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“World of Trouble demonstrates a greater confidence in the
storytelling, richer supporting characters, and an ending that I
wanted to both race toward and hold off as long as
possible.”—Indianapolis Business Journal
Praise for Countdown City
Winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award
“I always appreciate novels that have new and interesting
approaches to traditional genres, and Ben H. Winters’ two novels
featuring Hank Palace fill the bill.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR
“Winters is brilliant in conveying the ways in which people look
for their best impulses but often end up as the victims of other
people’s most base instincts.”—Toronto Star
“Don’t miss this series!”—Sci Fi Magazine
“Winters is a deft storyteller who moves his novel effortlessly
from its intriguing setup to a thrilling, shattering
conclusion.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Praise for The Last Policeman
Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback
Original
One of Slate’s Best Books of 2012
"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last
Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John
Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns
“Winters’s apocalyptic detective story contains an earth-shattering
element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical
procedural.”—New York Times Book Review
“An appealing hybrid of the best of science fiction and crime
fiction.”—The Washington Post
“In his acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Winters showed off his
mastery of edgy, sardonic wit — there’s nothing like an asteroid
speeding toward Earth to bring out the black humor in
people.”—Newsday
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