# Madness Is Better Than Defeat

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- Book: [Madness is Better than Defeat](https://www.bookquiver.com/ned-beauman/madness-is-better-than-defeat) ([Madness is Better than Defeat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ned-beauman/madness-is-better-than-defeat.md))
- Authors: [Ned Beauman](https://www.bookquiver.com/ned-beauman)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-08-0417-218-9
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2019-01-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble...