The Mosquito Coast | Characters
Allie Fox (his name suggests the tenacious alley cat and the prophetic Allah), idiosyncratic inventor in his mid-thirties, wears a Hawaiian shirt and old baseball cap, chomps on a cigar butt, and emphasizes his many assertions with a forefinger cut off at the big knuckle. He holds opinions on everything from the Bible to television commercials, and most of his views contain disturbing kernels of truth. (One thinks of him as an intelligent Archie Bunker.) America has let him down; in his crackling colloquial language, his country is "in gridlock." AlHe's favorite declaration is "I'm the...
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