The global population soon finds out about the mission, resulting in unease, paranoia, and the escalated threat of another world war. When the puzzle pieces are found, the parts are secretly excavated and transported to a secret subterranean base in Denver, Colorado. In a search that spans the globe, Rose and her team eventually unearth every body part of what amounts to a giant humanoid robot. A French-Canadian linguist, Vincent Couture, also joins the team. As a result, Kara and Ryan are recruited by Rose to help solve the mystery. When they come to, Kara and Ryan realize they have landed atop a giant metal forearm that perfectly aligns with the hand placed under research at the University of Chicago. Kara and Ryan’s stealth helicopter detects radiation, malfunctions, and crashes to the ground. Meanwhile, Chief Warrant Officer Kara Resnik and her fellow American copilot Ryan Mitchell monitor Syrian airspace for the presence of nuclear weaponry. But she tries not to let her past encounter with the hand muddy her judgment. With an inquisitive nature, Rose suspects there are more body parts to be unearthed. Rose, now an accomplished twenty-eight-year-old physicist, is put in charge of the research project and tasked with deciphering the symbols embossed on the hand. Seventeen years later, the hand is transferred to the University of Chicago for further research. Not much is gleaned about the hand other than it is roughly six thousand years old and, despite being comprised of the extremely scarce heavy metal iridium, is “inexplicably light given its composition.” Without much information to extract, the hand is demilitarized and placed into storage. The military seizes the hand immediately, assigning scientific experts to examine the relic. On her eleventh birthday, Rose Franklin, riding her new bicycle near the city of Deadwood, abruptly falls through a giant hole in the ground, landing in the palm of a massive metal hand buried nearly seven meters deep. Narrated by an unknown interviewer, the story begins in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
As the first book in a series called The Themis Files, Sleeping Giants has been called “a stellar debut” by Kirkus Reviews, and “one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory” by NPR. When the artifact proves to be a single body part from a humanoid relic left behind by an alien race, Rose and her team must uncover the remaining anatomical puzzle pieces and decipher their significance. Narrated through a series of case-file interviews, transcripts, news-clippings, mission logs, and personal diaries, the overarching story tells of Rose Franklin, a physicist in charge of solving the mystery of an ancient artifact she came in contact with seventeen years prior. Sleeping Giants is the 2016 science-fiction debut novel by Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel.
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