Congo
By: Michael Crichton.
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1993 01
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780345378491
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Archaeology -- Fiction; Congo (Brazzaville) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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 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 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 …
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-316)
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