While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams *****

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams is a political thriller. Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn is fighting a conspiracy by President Brandon Stokes to cover up research to target Muslims with a genetic weapon. Justice Wynn takes a drug called Sleeping Beauty and falls into a coma. He hands the battle off to his clerk and our protagonist Avery Keene. She has many puzzles to solve reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code.

The book is based on some fantastic science. The Sleeping Beauty drug causes of coma with no other effects. The body, including the brain, is undamaged. A treatment to reverse the drug is possible, but unknown. The biological weapon is a hemorrhagic fever that only effects people with a particular genetic pattern (Imagine something like 23 and Me that identifies the target population). The plan was to use this weapon to eradicate Muslims (the literal definition of genocide).

The book has a significant legal component. Both the author and our protagonist went the Yale Law School. The plot hinges on Powers of Attorney, wills, and constitutional questions (25^th Amendment).

Subplots include Avery’s drug addict mother Rita, and Justice Wynn’s estranged son Jared.

A fast-moving political thriller of Supreme Court politics, conspiracy, and bioterrorism.

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