I pulled this off the new releases of my local library because the premise was intriguing. Genesis 6 of the Bible mentions giants (the most common translation) existed in the early Biblical days, and were probably swept away in the flood of Noah. Cut to modern day where a U.S. army battalion tracks down a giant in the wilds of Afghanistan and captures it after taking losses, and transports it/him to a secret facility in the U.S. near a reservation. From this point on, it is basically a Jurassic Park movie, and no one learns from all their fatalities that they should just launch a missile at the big guy.
Some people may enjoy it, I did not, especially since it seemed obviously self-published (no idea how my library did the collection management on this one), with at least one spelling/grammar error per chapter. An early chapter introduces “Agent hitman” out of nowhere (there’s a *hitman* now?) – turns out it was Agent “Whitman”. Throw in a secret society getting the giant’s DNA (this subplot has no conclusion), the native agent from the reservation intuiting how to take on the giant, the giant quickly learning English besides still speaking ancient Hebrew at the start, and there’s nothing here you can’t already predict.
First time author, promising premise, but not a great read. If you liked Ethan Pettus’s *Primitive War* (U.S. soldiers fight dinosaurs in Vietnam War), you may like this, but you take your time into your own hands.
by bmtri