Congo
(Audiobook CD)

Compact discs.

Performed by Julia Whelan.

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" who likes to fingerpaint. One of her drawings match the brittle pages of a 1642 print, a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition-- along with Amy-- is sent to the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death.