Madness Is Better than Defeat

In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed.

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Dazzling . . . his best to date . . . If there is one adjective that describes Beauman's prose it is 'buoyant' - a quality which allows the reader to get through a long book with little effort, and the author to carry the considerable heft of his intelligence lightly. And it is a roaming intelligence. David Patrikarakos Spectator

Product details

• Authors: Ned Beauman, Beauman Ned
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781473613591
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-1359-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Literary, Humorous fiction, Honduras, Modern and contemporary fiction