It's eight-seventeen on a Tuesday morning, and every coma patient in the world has just woken up. When an inexplicable phenomenon sweeps across the globe, anti-terrorist operative Jacinta Robbins is asked to lead an investigative taskforce. With every agency ordered to use their full resources to uncover the cause of the awakening, it quickly becomes clear that terrorists have little or nothing to do with the event. However, orders are orders, and Jacinta doesn't do things halfway. As inexplicable events begin taking place across the city, her investigation turns from afterthought to all-hands-on-deck crisis as evidence begins to mount against the newly awakened patients. With mystery after mystery piling up, Jacinta must uncover how these previously unrelated individuals seem to all be working together, and why many of their families insist that they are very different from the people they used to be. But most of all, she must discover what they intend to do with the forty-eight nuclear fuel rods they've just stolen.