{"product_id":"books-madness-is-better-than-defeat-by-ned-beauman","title":"Madness is Better than Defeat","description":"'Dazzling . . . his best to date' Spectator    'A novel of great intelligence and humour, cleverly structured and brimming with tricks . . . a tremendous rainbow' New Statesman    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 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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673461088529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781473613614.jpg?v=1781525857","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-madness-is-better-than-defeat-by-ned-beauman","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}