Sleepless by Charlie Huston
 Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading.
Here is the blurb from the publisher:
What former philosophy student Parker Hass wanted was a better world. A world both just and safe for his wife and infant daughter. So he joined the LAPD and tried to make it that way. But the world changed. Struck by waves of chaos carried in on a tide of insomnia. A plague of sleeplessness.
Park can sleep, but he is wide awake. And as much as he wishes he was dreaming, his eyes are open. He has no choice but to see it all. That’s his job. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, he’s tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected what they most crave: sleep.
After a year of lost leads and false trails, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceuticals giant behind Dreamer. Somewhere in those shadows, at the nexus of disease and drugs and money, a secret is hiding. Drawn into the inner circle of a tech guru with a warped agenda and a special use for the sleepless themselves, Park thinks he knows what that secret might be.
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To know for certain, he will have to go deeper into the restless world. His wife has become sleepless, and their daughter may soon share the same fate. For them, he will risk what they need most from him: his belief that justice
must be served. Unknown to him, his choice ties all of their futures to the singularly deadly natureof an aging mercenary who stalks Park.The deeper Park stumbles through the dark, the more he is convinced that it is obscuring the real world. Bring enough light and the shadows will retreat. Bring enough light and everyone will see themselves again. Bring enough light and he will find his way to the safe corner, the harbor he’s promised his family. Whatever the cost to himself.
Not the type of book that I would normally pick up but this one sounds like a real page-turner. Plus, I seem to be on an “end of the world” kick and plagues and anything remotely about plagues seems to attract me these days. Wonder what that says about me? Hmmm.
Book Chatter 
This sure intrigues me. I would like to check it out.
Here is my Friday Find: The Silent Governess by Julie Klassen.
I just read about this yesterday on NPR. Here is the link
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123287779.
I added it to my wishlist from the review.
Philosopher turned cop is definitely interesting. The cover has a slightly blurry quality that hints at a good mystery. I would definitely pick it up for a closer look!
This is a great find!
I’m not sure about this one. I’m going to have to hold off on deciding whether I should read it until I hear what you think.
Wow, sounds really intriguing. Nice find. Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.
Wow, I LOVE the sound of this one! Thanks for sharing it! It reminds me a lot of Blindess, which also has a mysterious plague changing the world as we know it…I’ll let you guess as to what it could be. 😉
My Friday Finds are over at bookwanderer!
Yeah, I’ve been kinda wondering that myself. Plagues, end of the world events, etc. have got my attention lately. Do you think we are depressed and don’t know it? Or maybe we are just a little twisted. I get some sick thrill out of reading these books.
I am fascinated by all of the end of the world stuff. It could be that I am twisted and morbid and it never came out before, but I enjoy seeing the characters overcome obstacles and as you know with these books, sometimes they don’t! That little touch of realism is always a wake-up call too.
Wow, sounds intense!
Oh yes, I do like the look of this one! Thank you 🙂
Here is my Friday Find!
Sassy
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Sounds a good one – I’ve read a couple about plagues lately, too.
This one sounds like it has a new and interesting twist on the plague type of story. The action side of it almost sounds like something out of Lethal Weapon. 🙂
Sounds good Ti, Thanks!