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Congo by Michael Crichton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Congo about?

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 ... --back cover

Who reads Congo?

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Michael Crichton
Publisher
Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9780394513928
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
History, Fiction, Thriller
Rating
3.56 / 5 (131,539 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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