Every story needs a villain, and Gideon Cole is one nasty piece of work.
Gideon does not want to conserve any of the forest tracts in Belize. He owns a substantial interest in one of the country’s largest industrial farming companies and wants to clear-cut the particular tract Shawn is trying to conserve to plant sugarcane.
He does NOT like no for an answer and will go to any lengths to get what he wants, including bribing government officials to get his way. Cole has a large group of strong arms working for him. It’s amazing how many people there are in the world who are willing to work for someone as horrible as Gideon Cole. By the way, his name means “Dark Destroyer.”
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