description: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with Amy — is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death … michaelcrichton.com
language: English
title: Congo
titlecomplete: Congo
genres: Science Fiction Fantasy, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery, Africa, Horror, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 169135
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Random House Trade