Book Review - "Congo" by Michael Crichton.

In the novel "Congo", Travis, head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm, sends a group of scientists to the Congo in Zaire to gather diamonds needed to finish a breakthrough in laser communications technology. The night the scientists spend in the Congo, they set up a camera for Travi-Com to see what was happening. The transmitting signal was lost before they could give Travi-Com details on the progress of their expedition. When they regained the signal …

…and tribes are trying to shoot it down Karen Ross takes flares and throws them out the door so that the heat censored bombs go after the flares instead of the plane. Another difference is that Amy tried to save Dr. Elliot when he was almost killed by the bloodthirsty gorillas. In conclusion, the book is very similar to the movie, yet there are some minor details stated above to make the plot more thrilling.