MAMista

MAMista is a novel by Len Deighton set in a fictional South American country, Spanish Guyana, in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

While there, he meets Ralph Lucas, an Australian who had been sent by his employer, a major pharmaceutical company, to supply medicines to the "people in the southern provinces" which are controlled by the "Movimiento de Accion Marxista", the MAM of the title.

The other, along with other members of the guerrilla party and Lucas, die after getting lost in the forest after the raid.

Kirkus Reviews called MAMista a "stately, outstanding mix of tragedy and black farce.

"[1] By contrast, Publishers Weekly called it "ultimately disappointing with its unraveling plot and elusive characters.