Congo

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...

In Houston, Karen Ross watches the team's last video transmission in horror: the camp destroyed, the bodies mutilated, and moving in the background a dark, blurred shape...

In San Francisco, Peter Elliot is teaching sign language to Amy, a gifted gorilla with a fondness for painting. Her most recent drawing perfectly matches the tattered pages of a Portuguese print from 1642 - a drawing of the ancient lost city…