In Recoil, Thompson uses first-person narration by the protagonist, as he does in many of his novels. Although the majority of Thompson's first-person narrators reveal psychosis and often murderous mania through their thoughts, Pat Cosgrove is a "clean" subject, with unquestionable motives.
Thompson allows Cosgrove pursuit of the American Dream, forcing him to rely upon his wits to achieve it. Cosgrove is sure of his identity, causing little of the frenetic soul-searching often present in Thompson's narrators.
The plot allows Thompson to emphasize faults within the American systems of justice, both on the political and the punishment ends. Not the.....
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