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    Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A Novel
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    Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A Novel

    Written by Ned Beauman

    Narrated by Eric Meyers

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    About this audiobook

    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 Man 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 13, 2018
    ISBN9780525588726
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    Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A Novel
    Author

    Ned Beauman

    Ned Beauman was born in 1985 and studied philosophy at Cambridge University. He has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther Magazine, the Guardian, the Financial Times, and several other magazines and newspapers. He lives in London and is is at work on his second novel. Visit www.boxerbeetle.com.

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