Belize

About the Book

    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.

    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 those of a white man and his son: Ramon and Ray Kelley.

About the Author

CARLOS LEDSON MILLER is the author of the novels, Panama and Belize. As a youth, Carlos lived in both Central America and the United States. After a four-year stint in the Marine Corps, he settled on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he now lives and writes.