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A vault full of French fascist gold just waits to be taken.

It’s the early days of 1940 and Paris has settled into the new normal — a war where no one’s bothered to show up. As uncertainty permeates the darkened City of Light, a secretive organization works to concentrate the wealth and power of France with a select few. For them, Hitler is an ally.

For Les Boots, things could not be more in their favor. After a decade of breaking hearts and getting by, the sexy and sophisticated trio of con artists decide it’s time for something completely different. How hard, after all, could heisting a vault be? With the help of an English boy’s gift for forgery, a German Jesuit with a knack for truck engines and hopscotch, and a Danish soloist who keeps her fingers loose by busting strongboxes, Le Boot Hill Gang mount up and take on le beau monde of Paris.

They’re sure they can deal with the dogged investigator, the murderous terrorist, and the nasty rival gang. They think they can even manage when the neighbors to the east finally get around to invading.

But none of them counted on the relentless pursuit of a spoiled society girl, out to get whatever — or whomever — she wants.

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★★★★½ - "...an often hilarious, fun, witty, screwball-comedy heist-adventure."

"...a little bit 'The Italian Job', a little bit 'Inglorious Basterds', and an awful lot of fun." -Jodi Wiggins, NetGalley

"...entertaining and engrossing.... Highly recommended!" -Anna Maria Giacomasso, Edelweiss

"A thoroughly fun, subversively modern twist on the screwball comedies of the time." -CPH Review

About the Author

Eric Serrell is the bestselling, award-winning writer no one knows. After years of ghostwriting the novels for some great storytellers, Eric found the time to produce a work of his own. His debut novel, Fall Rotten, is an homage to his favorites-the fast-talking, sharp-witted screwball comedies of the 1930s. A native-born Foreign Service brat, former immunobiologist and software engineer, Eric now spends his days putting visions into words, traveling with his autistic son on The World Disney Tour (as opposed to the Disney World tour, which is much more limited), obsessively jumping rope, and trying to perfect the Brazilian pãozinho, the little French breads of his childhood.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07V3F53KT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Winding Road Press (July 9, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 9, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3018 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 428 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0578499495

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Eric Serrell is the bestselling, award-winning writer no one knows. After years of ghostwriting the novels for some great storytellers, Eric found the time to produce a work of his own. His debut novel, Fall Rotten, is an homage to his favorites — the fast-talking, sharp-witted screwball comedies of the 1930s. A native-born Foreign Service brat, former immunobiologist and software engineer, Eric now spends his days putting visions into words, traveling with his autistic son on The World Disney Tour (as opposed to the Disney World tour, which is much more limited), obsessively jumping rope, and trying to perfect the Brazilian pãozinho, the little French breads of his childhood.

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Ed Malaker

Worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2019

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I liked this story, its set in the past and is a very detailed tale about a gang heist. It's fun to read, and I had a good time laughing at and trying to pronounce many of the names. I found myself smiling a lot at the banter between characters, and that was what mainly kept my interest through the story. Great Dialog!

There are a lot of foreign words and places that I struggled with, and the story is very involved with a lot of depth, but it is well-told with every action clearly described.

Definitely worth the read, especially if you like heists or history.

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Rebecca L.

2.5 Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019

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This tale is about a group of people in Paris who are planning a heist and some of the cops after them, primarily a former war-hero named Andre. The ringleaders are Patrick (a.k.a. Expat) a former U.S. Marshal and his friend Luc who is half Irish and half French. They team up with Luc’s Irish cousin Maggie, a lock-pick named Halle, a young Welsh forger named Reggie, and a German mechanic (Emil) to steal gold from a French official who is collaborating with Nazis.

It was initially difficult to understand who the main players were and what their relationship to one another was. After all, the point of view seemed to jump around a lot in the first quarter of the book and the characters are introduced in a seemingly random fashion. Several of the characters also have nicknames and other aliases that get thrown around with no explanation.

There are also some generally irrelevant characters in the mix that confused the action further, such as Zelda Fitzgerald and her friends. These individuals didn’t add much to the story as they sort of existed on the fridges of everything that was going on. But they had chapters dedicated to their activities all the same.

Adding to the confusion was the constant mix of different languages (French, Spanish, German, Dutch, etc.) that are spoken in any given scene. This includes Expat’s occasional comments that are made in a dialogue that would presumably be hard for anyone other than an American reader to figure out. Furthermore, the dialogue is unnecessarily and overly risque at times, particularly in any of the scenes involving Maggie or Petra.

In short, this book had an interesting premise and some interesting characters, but was ultimately not as good as it could have been.

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Emkay

Confused at first about what it was about

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2019

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I had thought this was going to be some sort of mystery because the original cover was dark and foreboding. I see now that the cover has changed and it better reflects that this is actually a tongue in cheek comedy about lifelong friends during a time of uncertainty in Paris.

Yes, it's also about the robbing of a vault of gold, but I think that's all secondary to the story of friends with a long history together doing what they can to get by while trying to have fun. There's no main character as each person followed gives a differing point of view of what life's like during the months leading up to an invasion that we know is inevitable but no one in the story really seems to believe is going to happen.

Well written with a great cast of characters and a real sense of time and place. I found the scene with the Germans in the armored personnel carrier particularly funny because having been in the military myself, I know how easily that can happen.

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Hannah

An Almost Heist Success

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2019

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A book with a premise like this held a lot of intrigue for me. I do love a period piece, especially one that involves a heist set in WWII Paris. However, the story had far too much going on. I was left feeling disinterested and vaguely confused. I think the story, while incredibly imaginative, ended up coming off too convoluted to follow.
Frankly, I was imagining much of the story in my mind as a movie, ala Oceans 11, The Sting, or one of the Pink Panther movies. Perhaps a reworking of this story into a script would be a better medium.
All in all, the book has a fantastic premise and well thought out characters--though the actual execution of it all left something to be desired.

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Nicole P

Fun book, although complicated at times.

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019

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What I really liked about this book was the sense of humor sprinkled throughout. I also really love the time and setting of the book - 1940s, Paris. While it can lean towards being a bit character heavy (which makes it easy to lose track of people sometimes), it remains an entertaining book. Some of the foreign words also threw me off a bit. Initially it's kind of tough to follow, but after a while I got used to the pace of the story and began to enjoy myself.

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Susan P. Alpert

A Complex Caper

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2019

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FALL ROTTEN by Eric Serrell is an amusing novel about a gold heist committed by a group called Le Boot Hill Gang. The novel is set in 1940 Paris before the German invasion. Mr. Serrell comes from a family that was in the Foreign Service, and it shows in his great ear for international dialect and in his worldly humor.

For example, one of the main characters is called Ex Pat because he is an American named Patrick.

Another character comments about the approaching Nazis invasion by saying, “Either they’re getting ready to invade, or they were misinformed about a change in venue for the Summer Olympics.”

The first half of the novel suffers from having too many characters with different points-of-view, making it hard to navigate. Some of the confusion comes from characters impersonating other characters. The second part of the novel seems smoother. It maintains a sense of humor while becoming more focus on the Nazi threat.

Heist stories are already complicated because if they weren’t, we all would be safe crackers in our spare time.

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Sharon

Just okay

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2019

Not my kind of story

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

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This novel is a fun and witty take on historical fiction. If you love banter and Paris, you won’t go wrong with this fun, quick read.

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Katherine

A good light read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2019

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Fall Rotten by Eric Serrell is definitely one of the best period studies I’ve read in a while! Set in 1940s Paris, this is a complex story of a heist to be pulled off by three con artists amidst the tense political climate of the Second World War. Serrell has captured the tone of this novel excellently, and has managed to keep the mood light despite some of the more serious problems that the protagonists are facing.

This book is full of unexpected surprises and light-hearted moments - overall I thought it was a brilliant read, thoroughly enjoyable! A little confusing at times with all the different points of view on offer, but it’s definitely worth persevering - the characters are all really well-written and distinct once you get into it.

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