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Let The Chips Fall
Paperback
Series: Glasgow Fiction, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 4 2025
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three men die on the streets of Glasgow.
None of them die innocent.
Scotia was a dealer who fed addiction and called it survival.
Ali sold debt dressed up as hope.
Hullsy broke bones for men richer than him and called it loyalty.
One by one, their lives end violently - in stairwells, offices, and dark streets - only to open somewhere colder, stranger, and far more honest.
They wake at a table.
Across from them sits God.
No pearly gates.
No halos.
No second chances on credit.
Instead, they're handed a deck of cards and a simple bargain:
Each man must win one hand against God in six weeks - not with luck, but with truth.
For every loss, God shows them something real:
Not what they did.
Not what they tell themselves they did.
But what their choices actually cost other people.
As the cards fall, their pasts are ripped open:
A schoolgirl on Duke Street.
A family sold into ruin.
A child watching his father beaten at knifepoint.
This is not a book about redemption wrapped in comfort.
It's about consequence.
About the lies men live inside.
About whether facing the truth is worse than damnation.
Let the Chips Fall is a dark, lyrical, unapologetic novel about guilt, masculinity, class, and judgement - set in the raw heart of modern Glasgow and carried into a place beyond time.
And in the end, the greatest gamble isn't winning.
It's telling the truth.
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