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 bodiesโall motionless except for one moving imageโa 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 expeditionโalong with Amyโis 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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