The Sleep Directive

The government promised safety from an existential threat: sleep in a protected facility and wake when it's over.

Will Mercer's family checked in.

He didn't.

When reports of a devastating global terror event plunge the world into panic, citizens are offered salvation through the Sleep Directive-a medically induced coma designed to outlast the crisis. Most people welcome the chance to sleep through the fear.

Will doesn't trust the footage. Or the government's sudden urgency to make the world unc...