6/5/2023 0 Comments The fortune men review![]() ![]() And, under the shadow of the hangman’s noose, he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life – against conspiracy, prejudice and the inhumanity of the state. ![]() But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served. ![]() It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn’t too worried. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. Based on the true story of the last man executed in Cardiff, Wales, The Fortune Men tells the harrowing tale of Mahmood Mattan, a young sailor wrongfully. Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. Buy this book from to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. EST (Katty Huertas/The Washington Post) Gift Article The outrageousness of the case against Mahmood Hussein Mattan still burns: In 1952. ![]()
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