Congo - Michael Crichton - 1980 BCE Alfred A. Knopf Hardback - Paul Bacon Cover

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Paul Bacon Blurb:”The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery and now Congo! It's Crichton in top form-and the terrain this time is darkest Africa. Three daring adventurers trek into the jungle-into the very heart of the Congo, through cannibal country, past Raming volcanoes-in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. Pure H. Rider Haggard, but with the incomparable Crichton difference! His intrepid band (two of them Ph.D.'s) consists of: A young California scientist (specialty: primate research) who is accompanied by his sensitive, intelligent "talking" gorilla, Amy (a vocabulary of 620 words, a will of her own, and she cries if he leaves her) ... A geniusty and gorgeous young woman from ERTS (Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., a Houston-based corporation with hush-hush global interests) who is ruthlessly determined to secure the (industrial) diamonds before her equally ruthless Euro-Japanese