RIVER OF DEATH.

A great war novel!!! "River of Death" was one of the last books that famed thriller author Alistair MacLean wrote before he died in 1987. Unfortunately, it, like most of the other books he wrote near the end of his career, is not a very good book. The central plot is decent enough: Hamilton, a jungle expert, shows up in Brazil having apparently found a lost Indian city in the jungle. This attracts the attention of Smith, a man who appeared out of nowhere in the late 1940s with a small fortune that he built up into a large financial empire. Smith hires Hamilton into taking him to see the lost city, and soon Hamilton, his two trusty companions, and Smith and his entourage are off to the jungle, facing Anaconda snakes, giant spiders, cannibalistic natives, dizzying heights, and so on. But Hamilton has his own personal agenda . . . .