The Last Policeman (Last Policeman, #1)

by Ben H. Winters

An investigation’s proper course cannot be mapped in advance. It follows each piece of information forward to the next one.”

The end of the world changes everything, from a law-enforcement perspective.

that’s how it works: no matter what the odds of a given event, that one-in-whatever-it-is has to come in at some point, or it wouldn’t be a one-in-whatever chance. It would be zero.