"River of Death" Alistair Maclean (0)

River of Death
Alistair Maclean
1981
Author
Alistair (Stuart) MacLean was born in April 28, 1922 and past away February 2, 1987. He was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories , the best known of which are perhaps “The Guns of Navarone” and “Where Eagles Dare ”. During World War II he server with the Royal Navy and was a school teacher until 1955. MacLean was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the University of Glasgow in 1983
Setting :
The setting takes place in Brazilian jungle in Amazonas.
Characters
Colonel Spaatz – Nazi wartime criminal
Von Manteuffel – Nazi wartime criminal, Major -General
Hamilton –Stranger,hes past unknown, Takes crew to Lost city
Mr. Smith – From an agency , Looks for proof that Lost city exists
Silver – Helicopter pilot, and good friend to Hamilton later .
Maria – Heffners girlfriend
Jack Tracy – Pilot, works with Mr. Smith
Navarro – Ramons twin brother , Mr. Smiths worker
Ramon – Navarros tein brother, Mr. Smiths worker
Heffner – works with Mr. Smith, man with bad attitude .
The plot
Book starts with von Manteuffel and Spaatz. They are stealing stealing money for themselves with their military crew. Suddenly everthing gets quiet and few minutes later lots of planes flew over their heads. Next thing its war and bombs are falling from the sky. Book takes us new location .
Mr. Smith is working in a agency who want pictures of Lost city. They have found out, that there is a man who has been in Lost city, man called Hamilton. When they found him and try to convince him to take Mr. Smiths crew into Lost city, he refuses. It is dangerous to take big crew into the jungle if anyone doesn’t know the jungle. Mr. Smith wouldn’t need a guide , but the planes he sent to look for Lost city returned and didn’t know any proof of Lost city or its existence. Mr.Smith convinces Hamilton to take his crew into Lost city and offers money and supplies for the journey . After that Hamilton has a little argument with Heffner. They use plane and a hoovercraft and fly to the first location in the jungle and they spend their first night in there. In the morning when they are on their way to the Lost city, Heffner tries to kill Hamilton in helicopter. Hamilton kills Heffner but helicopter got damaged and crashes. Luckily everyone are alive . They are threathen by 2 alligators but Navarro and Ramon kill them . Suddenly a loud scream and everyone notice that Maria is being attacked by anaconda. Luckily Hamiltons bullet kills the anaconda. So Hamilton steals a boat from indians who have seen the crew and are ready to attack them. Crew gets away from there alive and they are moving along the river. They see the second indian tribe but they past this tribe wothout getting noticed. Soon they will get to the shore and hide because of the third tribe of indians. Hamilton speaks with them and show the crew that they are harmless. Hamilton knows this tribe well. Indina tribe chief lets the crew eat and rest in their camp place. In the morning the crew climbed up on the hill and there it was .. Lost city. They crossed the bridge saw a hut and run into Spaatz and von Manteuffel. Spaatz and von Manteuffel will take the crew prisoners. Hamilton and others managed to escape and Spaatz and Manteuffle were leaving too. The suddenly the Military came and arrested the criminals . Hamilton showed his mothers and fathers grave to Manteuffel. Manteuffel said that he was going to be a dead man. So military was going to take manteuffel away but he managed to get free and jumped off the cliff . Hamilton repeated his word about being a dead man. The crew found big amount of treasures. The Lost city really existed.
My opinion
It was a great book. At first book seemed boring but like author said about the book, that it is full of suprises and it was true. The end was quite interesting. It was a bit hard to read, because some pages consist of lots of new word. But if the harder word were translated , then it was easy to follow.