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First, there is the important fact that the expedition led by Karen Ross and which recruits Charles Munro, is not the first one sent by ERTS. There is no doubt that Peter Elliot felt a personal threat in these developments, although not a threat to his safety.

As the author of a book on the Democratic Republic of Congo myself, I should have felt fiercely competitive with Van Reybrouk, a Belgian playwright, poet, and author.From the USA Today bestselling author of Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series, The Guardian is an action-packed adventure with a hint of romance that’s perfect for fans of Extraction and Romancing the Stone. It helped inspire a number of essays I later wrote about dictators and informed some of the characters in my own books.

It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo. France’s Congo colony reproduced the excesses of its Belgian counterpart, despite the efforts of Gide and other prominent French figures to reform it. There have been a number of civil wars in the region known as the Congo including the massive Second Congo War (1998 to 2003). Elliot himself had helped eradicate one of the most famous misconceptions – the brutish stupidity of the gorilla.When the book was published, most reviewers found the character of Amy, the sign-language-using gorilla, too incredible to believe. To prepare for writing the book, I planned to go to Africa to see gorillas on the slopes of the Virunga volcano chain in eastern Congo. I don’t mean to be rude but when two leads in what is meant to be a serious thriller played defining parts in Ghostbusters (Hudson) and The Rocky Horror Show (Curry) you know you’re talking about a turkey. People magazine featured Michael Crichton in the February 16, 1981 issue in an articled titled “Author-Director Michael Crichton Is a Master of Multimedia Monkey Business” and written by Andrea Chambers.