Belize

Belize Is The Saga Of A Central American Father And His Two Sons — One American And One Belizean — Who Struggle Against A Forbidding Land And Often With Each Other. The Story Opens In 1961 On The Eve Of Hurricane Hatti Then Transports The Reader Across Forty Years From The Unrest Of Colonial British Honduras To Turbulence Of Present Day Belize.. Ramon Kelley Is The Ambitious Manager Of The Last Company To Log Mahogany From The Belizean Rain Forest. He Contends With An Unscrupulous American Employer As Well As With Environmentalist Pressure To Abandon What Historically Has Been Belize’S Primary Industry.. Ray Kelley Is The American Son Who Reluctantly Comes To Belize After High School Graduation. Clive Lightburn Is The Unacknowledged Creole Son Who Grows Up In A Village Near The Guatemalan Border. Clive’S Involvement In The Theft Of Artifacts From A Mayan Pyramid Prompts Him To Flee To Belize City. There His Path Will Cross Of A White Man And His Son: Ramon And Ray Kelley.