World of Trouble

Nominated for the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Its funny, its thrilling, its crazy, its interesting.Jenna Bush Hager, TODAY with Hoda & Jenna Stubborn, earnest, self-deprecating and decent, [Winterss] protagonist, Hank Palace, is a brilliantly realized character you want to follow to the very endand 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 OConnor, 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 apocalypseits one of the most well-written mysteries of any era...World of Trouble is a book you dont 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 peoples most base instincts.Toronto Star Dont 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 Slates 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 Winterss 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 theres nothing like an asteroid speeding toward Earth to bring out the black humor in people.Newsday

Ben H. Wintersis the author of six novels, includingThe Last Policeman, which won the 2013 Edgar Award for best paperback original, and its sequel,Countdown City. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his wife and their three children.