num_pages: 316
description: Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes.Ten thousand miles away, at the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., supervisor Karen Ross—watches a gruesome video transmission of that ill-fated team: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside bodies…and the grainy, moving image of a dark, blurred shape.In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, an extraordinary gorilla with a 620 “sign” vocabulary and a fondness for finger painting. Her recent drawing matches, with stunning accuracy, the frayed, brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642…a drawing of the ancient lost city.Immediately, a new expedition is sent into the Congo, descending into a secret world where the only way out may be through the grisliest death…
language: English
title: Congo
titlecomplete: Congo
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Africa, Suspense
ratings_count: 169114
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Ballantine Books