But will she become a pawn in a doomsday game no one can win? Rose is determined to find a solution, whatever it takes. It appears the aliens left behind their titanic death machines so humankind will obliterate itself. Families are torn apart, friends become bitter enemies, and countries collapse in the wake of the battling superpowers. America and Russia are locked in combat, fighting to fill the power vacuum left behind after the invasion. Now, after nearly ten years on another world, Rose returns to find a devastating new war-this time between humans. but they took the scientist and her crew with them. The mysterious invaders retreated, disappearing from the shattered planet. Though Rose and her team were able to fend off the attack, their victory was short-lived. Rose and the Earth Defense Corps raced to master the enigmatic technology, as giant robots suddenly descended on Earth’s most populous cities, killing one hundred million people in the process. The discovery set in motion a cataclysmic chain of events with geopolitical ramifications. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity.Pacific Rim meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants (“One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory.”-NPR) and Waking Gods (“Pure, unadulterated literary escapism.”- Kirkus Reviews).īrilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to solving the mystery she accidentally stumbled upon as a child: a huge metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota.
And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.īut some can never stop searching for answers. 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-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth.
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