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Madness Is Better Than Defeat

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Madness Is Better Than Defeat

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 20 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 intrigue, ingenuity and adventure, and showcasing Beauman’s riotous humor, spectacular imagination and riveting prose, MADNESS IS BETTER THAN DEFEAT is a novel without parallel: inventive, anarchic and delightfully insane.

Madness Is Better Than Defeat
by Ned Beauman