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Madness is better than defeat
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- Book Synopsis
- 'Dazzling . . . his best to date' Spectator 'A novel of great intelligence and humour, cleverly structured and brimming with tricks . . . a tremendous rainbow' New Statesman 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. 'Wildly plotted, comedic . . . triumphant' Financial Times 'Beauman has a gift: he's a natural comic writer' Guardian
- About The Author
- Ned Beauman is the author of Boxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction; The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and a Somerset Maugham Award; and the highly acclaimed Glow and Madness is Better Than Defeat. He lives in London. www.nedbeauman.co.uk www.nedbeauman.blogspot.co.uk
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781473613614
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sceptre, (17 May 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 408
- Weight
- 292 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 154 x 29 mm
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