Dr. Ben Givens is a retired heart surgeon living in Seattle. Diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer, and having the vast medical knowledge of the stages of death he will endure, he is seriously considering taking “the easy way out.” Ben takes his hunting dogs and his grandfather’s rifle on a final quest to revisit his roots in the apple orchards of the Wenatchee area. The trials he faces on this journey teach him the “easy way” isn’t so easy at all. Facing one strange situation after another, he struggles physically and mentally to make it through. He reminisces on being a soldier in the war, why he became a doctor, and the love of his life. All the while, he struggles between choosing to face the pain and the fear of a long miserable death, and the ethical duty to his daughter and grandson, to his loyal hunting dogs, and to a promise he made to his wife on her deathbed.
The reader won’t put the story down until he knows what Ben ultimately decides to do.

the congo is a good book that lets you really now about the congo and how smart gorillas really are and it really keeps your interest and does not let you down you will not want to put it down its so good!!