Congo - Couverture souple

Crichton, Michael; Martin, Jean-Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2253030031 ISBN 13 : 9782253030034

Editeur : Mazarine : Le Livre de poche, 1982

Synopsis

La chaîne volcanique de Virunga, aux confins du Zaïre et de l'Ouganda, recèlerait des mines de diamants d'une pureté inégalée. L'expédition envoyée sur place annonce, par liaison satellite, qu'elle. pense avoir localisé la légendaire cité de Zinj et son fabuleux trésor. Mais les images transmises montrent une station dévastée, équipements détruits, techniciens massacres , et la vision fugitive d'un visage de gorille. Karen Ross, responsable du projet, décide de partir sur les lieux. La jeune femme improvise alors une expédition avec des compagnons dont elle découvrira bientôt à quel point leurs intérêts divergent : Monroe Kelly, guide mercenaire, et surtout Peter Ellott, spécialiste des primates, qui va réintroduire, dans la région, Amy, un gorille exceptionnel, doté d'un ordinateur qui peut transcrire ses gestes en paroles. Si les membres de cette folle équipée réussissent à dévoiler le secret de Zinj, ils ne tarderont pas également à découvrir qu'ils font - eux aussi - partie d'une espèce en voie de disparition...

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Michael Crichton has sold over 200 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen of his books have been made into films. His novels include Next, State of Fear, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. Also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER, he remains the only writer to have had the number-one book, movie, and TV show simultaneously. At the time of Crichton's death in 2008, he was well into the writing of Micro; Richard Preston was selected to complete the novel.

Richard Preston is an internationally acclaimed best-selling author of eight books, including The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees. Many of Preston's books have first appeared in The New Yorker. He has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award, and he is the only person not a medical doctor to receive the Centers for Disease Control's Champion of Prevention Award for public health. He lives with his wife and three children near Princeton, New Jersey.

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 . . .

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mazarine : Le Livre de poche
• Date d'édition: 1982
• ISBN 10: 2253030031
• ISBN 13: 9782253030034
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 477