Madness is Better than Defeat

'Beauman writes with rare and bizarre brilliance' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

von Ned Beauman

416 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'Dazzling . . . his best to date' Spectator'A novel of great intelligence and humour, cleverly structured and brimming with tricks . . . a tremendous rainbow' New StatesmanIn 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.'Wildly plotted, comedic . . . triumphant' Financial Times'Beauman has a gift: he's a natural comic writer' Guardian

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9781473613614
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.05.2018
• Größe: 198 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton