Madness is Better than Defeat
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by Beauman, Ned | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 17/05/2018 by Hodder & Stoughton (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 416 pages
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Description
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.



