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Madness is better than defeat, Ned Beauman

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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 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 as a geopolitical pawn, unaware that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have imagined