Le Sommeil du monstre

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Le Sommeil du monstre is a 1998 Franco-Belgian sci-fi comic book written and drawn by Enki Bilal, published by Les Humanoïdes Associés. It is the first volume of the Tétralogie du Monstre series. Translated into English as The Dormant Beast, it was published together with the following two volumes, 32 décembre and Rendez-vous à Paris, under the title The Beast Trilogy: Chapters 1 & 2.

Plot synopsis
New York 2023. Nike, the hero of the Dormant Beast, has a prodigious memory, and he uses his gift to try to understand his part as a Yugoslav orphan, as well as his violent and chaotic present, where obscurantism has become a flourishing business of worldwide manipulation.