Congo - Couverture souple

Crichton, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061782556 ISBN 13 : 9780061782558

Editeur : Harper, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Crichton Michael

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 . . .

Quatrième de couverture :

Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes...

'Ingenious, imaginative'

LOS ANGELES TIMES

'Thrilling'

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'Fascinating'

THE WASHINGTON POST

'Dazzling' PEOPLE

The film version of Michael Crichton's classic bestselling novel has been created by the same special effects team responsible for Jurassic Park

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061782556
• ISBN 13: 9780061782558
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 496