Burton Blake

The American journey of three generations locks the neophyte company president Burton Blake in a vicious struggle with corporate intrigue financial greed and social corruption. Born to a taxi dancer at the beginning of the Second World War Burtons father Elias Blake never knows his natural father who is killed in the South Pacific. He is raised by his mother and stepfather from her second marriage who makes his fortune during the post war real estate boom of the 50s. Their untimely death by his business partner leaves the boy Elias in the guardianship of his mothers best friend and her marine vet husband who introduces him to the macho culture of guns and hunting. Eliass youth is influenced by the adult worlds drive for personal material gain. Over the next decades he expands his parents original real estate empire into the diversified multi-divisional multi-national corporation that he leaves to his son Burton. ​ Upon his forced return from traveling and working with oppressed third world people Burton learns increasingly more about the true nature of his deceased father as he undertakes the challenges of leading the company in a new direction.