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Earth Resources Technology Services have sent a geological project into the deep, dark regions of the Congo. Their mission is to discover an ancient lost city known to be the last source of the precious blue diamond. The area is said to have a cursor it, a curse no-one believes until the entire party are mysteriously killed one night, Back at the project's base in Houston through a satellite link-up with the wrecked the camera, something that looks almost like a gorilla, almost like a man...
Karen Ross, is the young, nightly intelligent scientist sent to the Congo to discover what caused the untimely death of her colleagues. She has joined forces with Peter Elliot, an innovative primatologist who is desperate to bring his own project to the jungle - Amy - a gorilla fluent in sign language who has been having bizarre dreams about her past in the lost city...
Together, they enter a world lost to man for centuries where only primitive instincts for survival can save them from the dangers ahead.
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1995, Ballantine Books
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1994-03, Editions Mazarine
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Originally published in the USA, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. - First published in the United Kingdom, Allen Lane and Penguin Books, 1981.
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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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