Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a young expert at the communications company TraviCom. Karen is willing to go into the depths of the African jungle in order to find out what happened when two TraviCom employees are killed during an expedition to test a new laser-based communication technology. The expedition, however, was actually launched to discover hidden blue diamonds at the site of a jungle volcano.
Personality… tough, intelligent, and savvy with both technology and street smarts. Karen knows how to get her group out of many difficult situations. She has no problem bribing corrupt politicians and warlords, and understands that money speaks a lot more than words and motives out here in Africa.
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Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a gripping thriller about the shocking demise of eight American geologists in the darkest region of the Congo. Deep in the African rain forest, near the ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, a field expedition is brutally killed. At the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., a horrified supervisor watches a gruesome video transmission of that ill-fated group and sees a haunting, grainy, man-like blur moving amongst the bodies. In San Francisco, an extraordinary gorilla named Amy, who has a 620-sign vocabulary, may hold the secret to that fierce carnage. Immediately, a new expedition is sent to the Congo with Amy in tow, descending into a secret, forbidden world where the only escape may be through the grisliest death.
