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City of Spades

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London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune from Lagos, the meeting of minds …

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London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune from Lagos, the meeting of minds and races takes a surprising turn.

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"London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial …"

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