Written as an epistolary narrative that collects a series of interviews, documents and voices, Sleeping Giants tells the story of this incredible, reality-shattering find and of the people who work on it. At least until Kara proves to be able to handle the pieces in a way no one else can. Putting those pieces together and making them work is where they stagger. The pieces are scattered all over the world which turns out to be a problem when other countries realise what is happening but still, this is the least of their concerns. The investigative team include not only Rose (who devised the technique to find the pieces wherever they may be) but also a competent duo of US army pilots Kara and Ryan and Vincent, a linguist who is tasked to decode the language inscribed on the pieces. More than that: they also know that the hand is only the tip of the iceberg and there are other body parts scattered around the globe.

Whereas no one really knows where it comes from, the team is very much certain that the hand is not from this world.

Through a series of collated interviews (given to an anonymous interviewer), journal entries and newspapers clips we come to learn that years later and now a physicist, Rose is co-opted to lead a top-secret scientific research team that is set to investigate the found artefact. This moment will change not only her life but also our world, forever. It starts with an accident: an eleven-year old girl named Rose is riding her bike in the woods when she falls through a pit and lands in the palm of a giant metal hand. Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a new series But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction? What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history’s most perplexing discovery-and figuring out what it portends for humanity. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand’s code. Its carbon dating defies belief military reports are redacted theories are floated, then rejected.īut some can never stop searching for answers. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved-its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. A hyped debut novel featuring Giant Alien Robots – it’s a shame that it’s so dull.Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth.

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