Harper
May 2009
On Sale: May 1, 2009
Featuring: Karen Ross; Peter Elliot
496 pages ISBN: 0061782556 EAN: 9780061782558 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary
ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight
American geologists are 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 finger paint. 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 . . .
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