# 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: sceptre
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7361-417-8
- Published: 2017-08-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman. 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. (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited