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The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman.

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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.

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Dazzling . . . his best to date . . . If there is one adjective that describes Beauman´s prose it is ´buoyant´ - a quality which allows the reader to get through a long book with little effort, and the author to carry the considerable heft of his intelligence lightly . And it is a roaming intelligence. David Patrikarakos Spectator

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Beauman, Ned

Ned Beauman was born in 1985 and lives in London. He has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther and the Guardian. His debut novel, BOXER, BEETLE was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize, and won the Writers´ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book. Ned Beauman was picked by The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Writers in 2011. His second novel, THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.

www.nedbeauman.co.uk
www.nedbeauman.blogspot.co.uk

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