Congo
Edition: First Harper paperback printing
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2009 05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780061782558
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- Genre Fiction -- Action & Adventure; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States; Mystery & Thrillers -- Authors, A-Z -- ( C ) -- Crichton, Michael; Mystery & Thrillers -- Thrillers -- Suspense
First sentence: TEN THOUSAND MILE AWAY, IN THE COLD, WINdowless main data room of Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., of Houston, Karen Ross sat hunched over a mug of coffee in front of a computer terminal, reviewing the latest Landsat images from Africa.
Description: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are 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 aftermath: 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 finger paint. 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 . . .
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Notes: USA/CAN