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CONGO
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CONGO

by Michael Crichton

Knopf · 2012

Peak rank

#6

Weeks on list

12

Chart History

#15101519801981
dashed = off the list

12 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #6

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Timeline comes a gripping thriller about the shocking demise of eight American geologists in the darkest region of the Congo. “Thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review Deep in the African rainforest, near the ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, a field expedition is brutally killed. At the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., a horrified supervisor watches a gruesome video transmission of that ill-fated group and sees a haunting, grainy, man-like blur moving amongst the bodies. In San Francisco, an extraordinary gorilla named Amy, who has a 620-sign vocabulary, may hold the secret to that fierce carnage. Immediately, a new expedition is sent to the Congo with Amy in tow, descending into a secret, forbidden world where the only escape may be through the grisliest death.

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ISBN-13
9780307816504
ISBN-10
0307816508
Published
2012
Pages
335
Publisher
Knopf
Google rating
4.5(6)
Categories
Fiction

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