Ned Beauman: Madness is Better Than Defeat - Historical Fiction - Hardcover Book

Library copy, excellent condition A wild, astonishing literary thriller by arguably England's most accomplished young writer, about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies far grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, intrigue, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure. 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝟏 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟓 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫