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Congo

Michael Crichton

  • 348 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1980
  • 49 editions
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1 About this book

Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, featuring the mines of that work's title.

Good for readers who want: a thriller and science fiction.

  • Thrillers
  • Science fiction
  • Adventure
  • Africa
  • Mystery Thriller
  • Archaeology
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2 About Michael Crichton

1942–2008

John Michael Crichton ( KRY-tən; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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