An inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, 
A literary thriller fueled by a quest for truth - and a fight for control of earthshaking power.
A girl is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth.
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.
Seventeen years later its origins, architects, and purpose unknown.
Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.
She is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. 
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?