Excellent synopsis. There's zero doubt in my mind that Kerry named the boat after the book. It is a short book and I recommend it to all Freepers as background for Kerry's ongoing attempt to resurrect himself poltically.
Rodney, you're on to something here.
We all know that Kerry is a twisted individual with regard to the Vietnam period: he "visited Cambodia"; he "speaks Vietnamese"; he was "wounded three times." Lies, all of them, and Kerry has shown no restraint whatsoever in saying these things. Even trying to defend them when caught redhanded in the above lies.
So there's no doubt he would take yet another perverse pleasure in monumentalizing his seditious behavior post-1972 by naming his boat after the very same m.o. used by Fowler: "I was out watching Scaramouche" while engineering the destruction of both South Vietnamese and American foreign policy by collaborating with the Viet Minh Communists.
This is precisely the sort of sick humor that Kerry would love. Especially broadcasting his sedition and treason on the back of his boat. Yes, he would revel in promoting this joke on the "stupid" American public.
By the way, in "The Quiet American" Fowler's girlfriend Phoung is devastated and shamed by Fowler's actions, and goes back to being a dancehall girl despite Fowler's murderous plot.
In SE Asia, upwards of 3 million people died after Kerry's equally murderous handiwork.
"I was out watching Scaramouche", indeed.