Rating: ****
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
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. 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 fingerpaint.
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 . . .