Congo (novel)

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Congo

First edition cover
Author	Michael Crichton
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel, Adventure novel
Publisher	Knopf
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	348
ISBN	0-394-51392-4
OCLC	6602970
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3553.R48 C6 1980
Preceded by	Eaters of the Dead
Followed by	Sphere

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.