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Fortune
Fortune | SMYTH
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Eddie Wade has recently returned from the US oilfields. He is determined to sink his own well and make his fortune in the 1920s Trinidad oil-rush. His sights are set on Sonny Chatterjee's failing cocoa estate, Kushi, where the ground is so full of oil you can put a stick in the ground and see it bubble up. When a fortuitous meeting with businessman Tito Fernandez brings Eddie the investor he desperately needs, the three men enter into a partnership. A friendship between Tito and Eddie begins that will change their lives forever, not least when the oil starts gushing. But their partnership also brings Eddie into contact with Ada, Tito's beautiful wife, and as much as they try, they cannot avoid the attraction they feel for each other. Fortune, based on true events, catches Trinidad at a moment of historical change whose consequences reverberate down to present concerns with climate change and environmental destruction. As a story of love and ambition, its focus is on individuals so enmeshed in their desires that they blindly enter the territory of classic Greek tragedy where actions always have consequences.
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mackelie
Fortune | SMYTH
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Mehso-so

Eddie Wade is looking for oil in Trinidad when he comes across Kushi estate that seems is full of oil. He partners up with Tito Fernandez on this venture. All seems to go well until Eddie and Tito‘s wife Ada start to feel attraction to each other.

I liked the story and was looking forward to seeing what‘s going to happen with the oil. But it lacked something for me as it was difficult to get back to reading it. Tragic ending say the least…