Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel, Michael Joseph

f you loved The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar: this is a must-read thriller for you. * * * Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger... &quot,We always look forward. We never look back.&quot, That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklyn, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal, which predates all human civilisation on the continent. &quot,But this thing ... it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history.&quot, An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it. &quot,It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.&quot, But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...? &quot,About everything.&quot, * * * 'Bursts at the seams with big ideas. A sheer blast from start to finish. I haven't had this much fun reading in ages' Blake Crouch, author of the Wayward Pines trilogy