Snake Water — Alan williams

SNAKE WATER:
A fortune in raw diamonds lay hidden somewhere in the poisonous swamps of the South American jungle. Three neurotic male adventurers and a cool, reliable British blonde set off across South American banana republic in search of them. Greed lures them into a living green hell of giant carnivorous crabs, swamps, deserts, snakes, volcanoes, rival desperadoes ? these are only a few of the hazards to be faced. The combination is lethal and violence quickly breaks out.

ALAN WILLIAMS was born in 1935, the son of actor/play-wright Emlyn Williams. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble, Heidelberg and King's College, Cambridge. As a reporter he covered most of the world's trouble spots -Vietnam, Israel during the Six-Day War, Czechoslovakia, Ulster, Mozambique and Rhodesia. He has travelled widely and has achieved a controversial reputation both as a man and a writer. In Algeria, the Foreign Office received complaints about him both from the French Army and from the Arabs. In Beirut, he encountered Kim Philby the day before the latter disappeared to Moscow. Before that, he was involved in die Hungarian Revolution, and masqueraded his way into East Germany when that country was virtually closed. He was a delegate from Cambridge to the World Festival of Peace and Friendship in Warsaw where he and some friends smuggled a Polish student to the West. His first-hand experience of adventure and intrigue was put to superb use in his highly successful novels.

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Other novels available by Alan Williams: Long Run South, Barbouze