The novel “Waking Gods” by Sylvain Neuvel was published for the first time in 2017. It’s the second book in the Themis Files trilogy and follows “Sleeping Giants”.

It’s been years since the parts of the robot of alien origin that was named Themis were reassembled. It is now possible to drive it but there are still many unanswered questions regarding how it works and much more. For example, nobody knows what happened to Rose Franklin. The Earth Defense Corps, formed to defend the Earth from potential alien threats, seems quite useless.

The situation changes radically when another robot appears on Earth, in the middle of London. British authorities aren’t the only ones concerned about the consequences of alien arrivals on Earth. All over the world, emotional reactions are running high and even the mysterious man who manipulated the world’s most powerful people is losing control.