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A wild, astonishing literary thriller by probably England's most attained young writer, about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly incorrect - the Man Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus so far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently found out in the jungles of Honduras, one going to photograph a screwball humor on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and deliver it back to New York. A seemingly countless 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 before have guessed. Shot through with insanity, intrigue, ingenuity, and experience, showcasing Beauman's anarchic laughter, spectacular thoughts, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Beat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in identical measure.
