# The Fortune Men

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- Book: [The Fortune Men](https://www.bookquiver.com/nadifa-mohamed/the-fortune-men) ([The Fortune Men.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nadifa-mohamed/the-fortune-men.md))
- Authors: [Nadifa Mohamed](https://www.bookquiver.com/nadifa-mohamed)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-035-3
- Published: 2021-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is many things, but he is not a murderer. So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. Witnesses allegedly saw him enter a shop that night and love lends him immunity too: the fierce love of his wife, who forgives his gambling in a heartbeat, and his children. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of returning home dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and cruelty - and the truth may not be enough to save him.