The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux Paperback Book 9780241973653

Allie Fox is going to recreate the world Abominating the cops crooks junkies and scavengers of modern America he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness