

Analysis of its unusual orbit shows that it may come very close to Earth soon. In April 2011, astronomers discover a new asteroid, 2011GV 1. The first part is dated March 20 the epilogue, April 11. Each part has an introductory graphic giving the date, and the asteroid's right ascension, declination, elongation and delta, or distance from Earth, in astronomical units. The novel is divided into four parts-"Hanger Town", "Non-Negligible Probabilities", "Wishful Thinking", and "Soon, They Will"-each containing five chapters, and an epilogue. World of Trouble, the final Last Policeman novel, was released in July 2014. It is the first in a trilogy Winters published Countdown City, the second volume, in mid-2013. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has optioned it for a possible television series.

The book was well received by critics, and won the 2012 Edgar Award in the category Best Paperback Original. He consulted with experts not only in astronomy and police techniques but psychology and economics.

Winters describes the work as an " existential detective novel", turning on the question of why people do things in spite of their long-term unimportance. His efforts are complicated by the social, political and economic effects of preparations for, and anticipation of, an asteroid impact six months in the future. It follows a police detective in New Hampshire as he investigates a suicide he believes was really a murder. The Last Policeman is a 2012 American science fiction mystery novel by Ben H.
