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The Green: A Novel of the Congo Basin
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Dr. Yemi has spent two years running from grief. When a prestigious research contract sends her into the Congo Basin rainforest - one of the last uncharted ecosystems on earth - she tells herself it's science. A chance to document species no one has seen. A career-defining expedition.
She doesn't know the expedition is a lie.
Behind the research funding is Vektor Industries. Behind Vektor is a mining consortium. Behind the consortium is a coltan deposit worth billions, buried beneath sixty million years of living forest. Yemi's job isn't to study the ecosystem. It's to provide the environmental assessment that will justify destroying it.
Five go in. The forest guide who speaks a language older than the trees. The geologist driving probes into sacred ground. The corporate handler with coordinates to an extraction point. The expedition leader hiding behind the science he sold. And Yemi, carrying a dead brother's memory and a journal she doesn't yet know will become the most important document she'll ever write.
The forest is listening. The forest has been listening for a very long time.
Rivers flow backward. Trails seal shut overnight. Footprints end mid-stride. Something enormous moves beneath the dark water. And the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: this forest is not a place. It is a sovereign intelligence, and it knows exactly why they've come.
THE GREEN is a literary thriller about grief, greed, and the thing that happens when humanity tries to take from a system that has been defending itself since before humans existed.
Not everyone walks out. The forest decides who carries the message - and who becomes the message.
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