In this breathtaking adventure story from Paul Theroux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux), the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they’ve left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
Adapted as a film in 1986 by Peter Weir (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/?ref_=nv_sr_1), starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix. Available on DVD at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mosquito-Coast-DVD-Region-NTSC/dp/B001DJLD08/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1387117627&sr=1-2&keywords=mosquito+coast
First published 1981
384 pages in Penguin paperback edition
ISBN 978-0140060898
Paul Theroux