The Berlin Wall has fallen. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramón and his desperate men hiding in the jungle, cradling their AK-47s, dusting off the Semtex, and still dreaming of world revolution.

MAMista takes us from the back corridors of American power in Washington, where oil and arms deals dictate who lives and who dies, to the violent capital of Spanish Guiana before plunging deep into the rainforest. There, a young American idealist, an Australian doctor, and a hardened revolutionary find themselves caught up in a guerrilla march from which not all of them will return.

No one’s motives are clean. No one’s loyalty is certain. Will the revolution devour its own, or will the CIA get there first?

Praise for MAMista:

“Deighton’s longest, most complex and passionate novel in years: an epic tale, set in a South American jungle, of good men and women crushed beneath the heel of Realpolitik . . . A new, brilliantly realized huge cast of characters . . . The spirits of Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad hover over this stately, outstanding mix of tragedy and black farce that builds slowly–but inexorably—to its piercing conclusion.”—Kirkus Reviews, 1991