Madness is Better than Defeat
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 & ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, & 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.
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Ned Beauman is the author of Boxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book & the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction; The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won the Encore Award & a Somerset Maugham Award; & the highly acclaimed Glow & Madness is Better Than Defeat. He lives in London.
http://www.nedbeauman.co.uk http://www.nedbeauman.blogspot.co.uk
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Año:
2017
Editorial:
Hodder and Stoughton, Hachette UK
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
1473613604
ISBN 13:
9781473613607
Archivo:
EPUB, 505 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2017