| 词条 | River of Death |
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| name = River of Death | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:Alistair Maclean – River of Death.jpg | caption = First edition (UK) | author = Alistair MacLean | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Thriller Novel | publisher = Collins (UK) Doubleday (US) | release_date = 1981 | media_type = Print | pages = 215 pp. | isbn = 0-449-20058-2 | oclc = 9470816 | preceded_by = Athabasca | followed_by = Partisans }} River of Death is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1981. As with most of MacLean's novels, it depicts adventure, treachery, and murder in an unforgiving environment, but is set this time in the steamy jungles of South America instead of above the Arctic Circle. Plot introductionIn 1945, with the Allies approaching, two German officers ransack a monastery in Greece and make plans to escape with the loot. However, one of the Germans is left behind by his partner, while the other escapes by submarine from Wilhelmshaven. Twenty years elapse, a wealthy millionaire, Smith, hires Hamilton, allegedly an expert on the jungle, to lead him to the ruins of a lost Indian civilization recently discovered in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle in Brazil. The entourage faces giant anacondas, giant spiders (only mentioned in a conversation), cannibalistic natives, and so on, discovering a settlement of Nazi war criminals and their descendants, living as if the Third Reich had never ended. It is soon clear that Smith's real purpose has little to do with archaeology, and more to do with revenge. Film adaptation{{Main|River of Death (film)}}River of Death was adapted into a 1989 movie directed by Steve Carver and starring Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, and Donald Pleasence. External links
7 : 1981 British novels|Novels by Alistair MacLean|Novels set in Brazil|British novels adapted into films|William Collins, Sons books|Cannibalism in fiction|Nazis in South America |
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