The Lost World

I did not like this book written by Michael Crichton. Six years after the previous events, a wealthy researcher named Richard Levine decides to investigate rumors of living dinosaurs in Costa Rica. He finds a sample and sends it to mathematician Ian Malcolm who is recovering from injuries caused on a previous expedition. He flies to Costa Rica with engineer Jack Thorne to rescue Levine and examine the island. Two of Levine's precocious students also sneak onto the flight.

It is the sequel to Crichton’s previous book. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel in 1912 with the same title as this one, about an expedition to an isolated Central American location where dinosaurs are discovered that survived the massive extinction. There are some differences with the 1997 film adaptation. Hammond died in the first book. In the film Malcolm goes out to rescue Sarah Harding, instead of Richard Levine. Ian and Sarah's relationship ended when she went to Africa. At the end of the novel the dinosaurs are expected to die off because of a condition similar to mad cow disease.