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The Last Policeman
- Gesprochen von: Peter Berkrot
- Serie: The Last Policeman, Titel 1
- Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 20 Min.
- Kategorien: Krimis & Thriller, Krimis

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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, 2013
What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.
The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job - but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week - except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?
The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit”. What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?
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Die Apocalypse naht - Hank Palace ermittelt
Natürlich ist das Faszinierende an diesem Hörbuch nicht der Kriminalfall. Der ist solide, birgt auch Überraschungen, ist aber alles in allem unaufgeregt und kaum spektakulär. Klassische Polizeiermittlung eben. Oder es wäre zumindest eine. Wenn Detective Hank Palace nicht mit den Widrigkeiten zu kämpfen hätte, die der nahende Weltuntergang so mit sich bringt.
Während die einen keinen Sinn mehr im Leben sehen und ihm vorzeitig ein Ende setzen (das gilt besonders für Versicherungsunternehmer...), lassen die anderen einfach alles fallen und verschwinden, um ihre 'bucket list' abzuarbeiten.
Palace hat also nicht nur das Problem, dass ihm seine Vorgesetzten die Theorie eines als Selbstmord vorgetäuschten Mordes nicht abnehmen. In der vorherrschenden Lethargie ist der Aktionismus des jungen, gerade erst beförderten Ermittlers allen lästig. Da immer mehr Menschen ihre Arbeitsplätze auf nimmer Wiedersehen verlassen, kämpft auch die Polizei mit Unterbesetzung. Die forensiche Abteilung gleicht nur noch einem Witz, die Laborarbeit wird nur noch von der Hilfskraft einer Hilfskraft verrichtet. Das Internet ist weitgehend zusammengebrochen; Handys finden nur noch sporadisch ein funktionierendes Netz; Benzin wird knapp.
Aber Hank Palace gibt nicht klein bei. Verbissen ermittelt er, befragt alles und jeden, sammelt akribisch Informationen in seinem kleine blauen Klassenarbeitsheft. Dabei wirkt er - das muss man zugeben - nicht unbedingt sympathisch. Er ist diese Sorte übereifriger, neunmalkluger Grünschnabel, der einem schon auf den Keks gehen kann.
Hank ist - zumindest in diesem ersten Buch - ein recht eindimensionaler Typ. Viel scheint sich unter der Oberfläche nicht abzuspielen, obwohl man aufgrund der Ich-Erzählung darunter schauen könnte. Ecken und Kanten sucht man. Das ändert sich ein klein wenig gegen Ende des Buches, als der Fall persönlich wird, bleibt aber ausbaufähig. Er muss an Profil gewinnen, wenn er diese Buchreihe lesenswert machen soll.
Zum Sprecher:
Ähnliches gilt für den Sprecher. Peter Berkrot passt mit seiner geschäftigen Allerweltsstimme genau zur Figur, bleibt aber berührungslos. Es hat alles etwas von einem sorgfältigen Polizeibericht an sich: ordentlich, durchaus enthusiastisch, aber Gefühle sind größtenteils Fehlanzeige. Berkrot kann man daraus keinen Vorwurf machen. Er setzt um, was die Vorlage ihm gibt. Trotzdem denke ich, dass er als Sprecher die fehlende Emotionalität des Textes ein bisschen besser hätte kompensieren können.
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The open ending with some unanswered questions and a vague possibility of escape from destruction leaves me intrigued in the mechanics of how such an escape could work, but with no great need to spend more time with the characters.
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