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while fending off cannibals, an angry hippo, guided missiles, and sophisticated sabotage by a rival German-Japanese team. To have found in the history of the Second World War a million square miles of unfamiliar territory— the Congo— is an achievement in itself. Crichton must have spent a while mulling over what could possibly motivate Prof Peter Elliott to leave his crib and in the end comes up with a plausible reason.

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