Book Two of Sleepers stars the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott. It begins with the origin of the first GL and reveals how he came to have his power ring and how he uses his powers to fight evil. Scott fights in WW II as both an enlisted man and as a costumed superhero. Scott must also fight a 17th-century supervillain, an anti-Green Lantern named Malvolio, who wants to take over the world and kill Alan Scott. Malvolio decides to cut a deal with Hitler that endangers the entire Allied campaign in Europe and the Pacific. But Malvolio's plans do not stop there. He is determined to eliminate the entire Green Lantern Corps, destroy Earth, and decimate all other worlds that have ever had the protection of a Green Lantern.