abstract: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.
Both newspapers say the public also need answers on why the authorities did not report the first case of bird flu in Shanghai sooner, as well as the cause ofdeath for thousands of pigs in the Yangtze River Delta and several sparrows in Nanjing in recent weeks.