The Mosquito Coast, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism & a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies & scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation & 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 & dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.