Title: Congo
Description: Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, featuring the mines of that work's title.

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Also contained in:

 - [Congo/Jurassic Park](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8475707W)
 - [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead][2]


  [1]: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/congo/
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead
Subjects: kakundakari, type IIb, diamonds, thrillers, science fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories, Fiction, Archaeology, Gorilla, Ancient Civilization, American Science fiction, Horror stories, Africa, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, general, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Adventure, Mystery Thriller
Places: Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Brazzaville), Zinj, Congo, San Francisco, Houston, Tangier, Nairobi, Virunga region, Japan, Germany, Holland
People: Karen Ross, Peter Elliot, Amy, Charles Munro
Time periods: 1642, 1979