Beneath the Neon Egg is a novel of jazz violence sex death love and the underbelly of life set in the low light of a Copenhagen winter It is the story of Patrick Bluett a forty-three-year-old Irishxad-American in Denmark divorced and navigating his relationship with his college-age children searching for life in a new country It is also the story of his neighbor a man in a similar circumstance who becomes his friendxand becomes entangled with a Russian prostituteThe novel borrows its four-part structure from John Coltranexs majestic jazz symphony A Love Supreme which Patrick Bluett listens to as he gazes out the window at the frozen streets of his adopted city unaware of events in the apartment across the hall and unaware of the consequences his friend will meetxor will perhaps escapeThe final novel of Thomas E Kennedyxs acclaimed Copenhagen Quartetxfour independent novels about the seasons and souls of CopenhagenxBeneath the Neon Egg cements Kennedyxs reputation as a literary revelation.
