Madness is Better than DefeatIn 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

But this time January builds a raft

when Anna's father

And a man bred and designed to fight is a dangerous man to have around in peacetime

What hold did she have over the rich old lady upstairs

With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh

Six months after the sudden death of her husband

but as they are drawn deeper into forbidding territory

working for her fathers real estate agency

A novel about many things

and decide just what the living owe to the dead

Why was she secretly seeing a psychiatrist

Scarlet is the first book in the Scarlet Revolution trilogy