2020/117: Countdown City -- Ben Winters

2020/117: Countdown City -- Ben Winters

... what he was saying is, at this point if it didn’t hit—if there was some last-minute thing, you know, some crazy scenario, like they can blow it up after all, or deflect it, or the religious people pray it out of the sky—...maybe that would be worse... [p. 303]

Possibly because I read all three novels in this trilogy in quick succession over a period of about 48 hours, this middle volume made less impact on me than the other two. 

 The end of the world is imminent: 77 days to go until a 6km asteroid plummets into the Indonesian archipelago.( spoilers for series premise but not for the events of the novel )