Mi sono piaciuti tutti e mi rendo conto che Crichton mi manca, se ne è andato troppo presto. 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 …Ĭongo è stato il mio ultimo incontro con la letteratura di Michael Crichton: ho cominciato a leggerlo qualche anno prima, Il terminale Uomo, per poi proseguire con Jurassic Park e Sfera. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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