1040 4ef7b2d8-506a-4c23-b5ba-e4f683eb5e58 Congo Michael Crichton calibre (0.6.35) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2003-10-08T23:00:00 UND SUMMARY: 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 . . . Harpercollins 9780060541835 Science fiction General Fiction Juvenile Fiction Suspense Animals Action & Adventure Adventure fiction People & Places Thrillers Thriller Africa Espionage Fiction - Espionage Congo (Democratic Republic) Apes & Monkeys Gorilla