Congo

About this book

Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away at the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services Inc. supervisor Karen Ross--watches a gruesome video transmission of that ill-fated team: a camp destroyed tents crushed and torn equipment scattered in the mud alongside bodies...and the grainy moving image of a dark blurred shape. In San Francisco primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy an extraordinary gorilla with a 620 "sign" vocabulary and a fondness for finger painting. Her recent drawing matches with stunning accuracy the frayed brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642...a drawing of the ancient lost city. Immediately a new expedition is sent into the Congo descending into a secret world where the only way out may be through the grisliest death....