Mr Hooligan

Travel Guide

“Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St Louis in a seaside polo field in Belize or I should say in British Honduras. Which is what they called it back in the late 1920s”

Riley James knows Belize like the back of his hand and he has lived and breathed his country all his life. With a hustler for a father and an alcoholic for a mother, he’s been used to  weaving in and out the streets, alley ways and dark corners of Belize.

The city and country is all he knows, with the sound of Bob Marley playing in the background –

“See he’s become a messenger, he knew the rural roads, the rain forests, the coastal waters, he learned all that in those few summers he managed to spend with his father”

Working for the Monsanto brothers in the murky world of drugs has given him quite an unique and dark view of the city.  A job goes horribly wrong and the debt jumps up  by the hands of a police man known as Red Boy or Red Dread depending on the part of town.

A drug smuggler is never going to just be able to walk away but the dark circles he works and lives in seem to getting ever smaller and ever more claustrophobic. He knows a lot of people but none of them with a clean bill of health as regards their past. Every person, like  a different part of the city is raw, rough, and complex. Living in the shadows of a shadowy world, but with a colourful cast of characters amidst bloody violence and paradise stained.