Harvey Jacobs, who was called “the only worthy rival of Vonnegut in his field,” wrote a novel about a scam of a truly titanic scale - and it took place in reality. “There were giants on the earth at that time,” says the biblical Book of Genesis. And now the Reverend Henry Turk makes a striking statement: Abraham and Moses, Christ and the apostles performed their deeds not on Middle Eastern soil, but on American soil, and the same American soil bore the Old Testament giants. George Hull, the youngest son of a cigar manufacturer, hears his sermon and gets the idea to give America a giant. And now the sculptors, skilled in creating chimeras for neo-Gothic temples, carve the giant in deep secrecy; Here the giant is buried under the cover of darkness on the farm of Hull's relative; here he is discovered by an unsuspecting dowser. After which the American continent shook from sea to sea; no one doubted the authenticity of the find, and the only thing that the pundits invited for consultation could not agree on was what exactly was in front of them: a truly petrified giant or an ancient life-size statue. The dance around the giant involves millionaire industrialists Carnegie and Vanderbilt, the greatest swindler Barnum and the midget circus performer General Thumb, a loving reporter from New York and the head of the Irish mafia...