Alistair MacLean · 1981 · river

Alistair MacLean's 1981 adventure. In 1945 two SS officers loot a Greek monastery and flee; decades later, one has vanished into the Brazilian jungle. Now the millionaire Smith hires the enigmatic guide Hamilton to lead him up the Rio da Morte - the River of Death - to a fabled lost city deep in the Mato Grosso, where a hidden colony of Nazi war criminals guards a deadly secret.

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   Cuiaba

   From the town of Cuiaba, the guide Hamilton leads the millionaire Smith and his party into the wilderness - each of them chasing a different secret into the Brazilian jungle.

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   The Rio da Morte

   They push up the Rio da Morte, the River of Death, into uncharted rainforest - running a gauntlet of rapids, anacondas, hostile tribes and treacherous companions, for not everyone means to come back alive.

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   The Lost City

   At the ruins of a lost city buried in the jungle, they find a hidden colony of Nazi war criminals living as though the Reich had never fallen - and Smith's true purpose, a reckoning years in the making, comes to its violent end.