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...MOSQUITO COAST by Paul Theroux; Houghton Mifflin; 374pages...
...people, and in the hoggish fatness of them." The country will soon collapse into class war, he assures his son: "When it comes, I'll be the first one they kill. They always kill the smart ones first." He is also the dominant, inescapable presence in The Mosquito Coast...
...earlier fiction, Theroux sometimes revealed a curious streak of misanthropy. It was not that he disliked certain characters, but that he did not care enough about them one way or another to justify their presence on the page. That is not true of The Mosquito Coast. Charlie, the author's mouthpiece, is too young to be cynical or blase. Fate, in the form of his outrageous father, has handed him an amazing series of experiences, and he recounts them with enthusiasm and love...
Exceptions exist--at the School of Public Health, for instance, Andrew Spielman, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, studies mosquito-borne diseases for the Army. What he learns about malaria will be as applicable to natives as to soldiers shooting natives...
...scientific community stands opposed. As one subcommittee staffer said, it views the measure as akin to treating a mosquito bite with acid...