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 Irish-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 friend-and becomes entangled with a Russian prostitute....

This memorial anthology dedicated to Thomas E Kennedy (1944-1921), the internationally celebrated author of The Copenhagen Quartet, comprising In the Company of Angels, includes a Kennedy story, an essay, a translation, a joint memoir, selections from interviews, reminiscences by writer friends all over the world, and an extensive bibliography of his works. A companion guide to the lifework of a writer whose fiction has been defined as "Unforgettable" (LA Times) ...

The Alpha Strategies is a framework of eight strategies common to all for-profit, not-for-profit, and public sector organizations, regardless of their size. The eight strategies are business definition, financial management, growth, marketing, organization management, research & development / technology, risk, and service delivery / manufacturing / production. For not-for-profits and public sector organizations, the business definition strategy is known as the mandate while marketing is ty...

Affecting millions of people in the United States, social anxiety, according to DSM-5-TR, refers to the condition of persisting intense fear or anxiety about being severely embarrassed or humiliated in social situations where such fear is out of proportion to any actual threat.This compelling new guide calls for an expanded definition, one that involves the persistent fears and shame of individuals related to what others might think of them if certain actions or thoughts in their p...

“Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful…Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O’Connor.” —Benjamin PercyFive-year-old Daisy Gonzalez’s father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn’t, and Daisy disappears.When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. And they also know a lot about each other. The immigrants ...

Each chapter is a complete story. But the characters build through the stories and you find out what happems next to them.You are a very private investigator in the capital city of Ireland of today. Like any city there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems.Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, busine...

What is an uncommon romance, begins by the beautiful and crystal blue waters of the Mediterranean in Nice, France.Two strangers meet at early dawn on the promenade in Nice. The circumstances are such that Annabel presumes Robert to be a tramp, and Robert thinks Annabel may be a prostitute. But they establish a bond that is to be the basis of true love.Annabel is an extremely wealthy, successful, self-made woman, but who tends to choose the wrong men.The truth of Rob...

The Irish police owe the French Gendarme a favour. When Gendarme Capitaine Trouvenon requests an Irish policewoman with, amongst other qualifications, big boobs and an ability to shoot, for an undercover job at the Cannes film festival, they select Madeline Curtis (Maddie), a detective sergeant who speaks fluent French and who meets their criteria.Maddie, a single mother, is just back from maternity leave and reluctantly takes the assignment. She also decides to take her baby to Fr...

The Irish police owe the French Gendarme a favour. When Capitaine Trouvenon requests an Irish policewoman with, amongst other qualifications, big boobs and an ability to shoot, for an undercover job at the Cannes film festival, they select Madeline Curtis (Maddie), a detective sergeant who speaks fluent French and who meets their criteria.Maddie, a single mother, is just back from maternity leave and reluctantly takes the assignment. She also decides to take her baby to France (wit...

"The Chicago Druid and the Ugly Princess" is a story that moves from a time of Irish folklore to modern-day Chicago.It follows the adventures of Fionnuala, a beautiful princess transformed into the ugliest women imaginable by the druid Lochlain, before being sent into the future.In modern Chicago, she encounters madcap characters, such as the crafty Patience, who uses Fionnuala’s powers to make money gambling, and implicates them in gang warfare. She is hunted down by the m...

Connor is a young, successful, conservative, tax accountant. His life changes when a short man in a leprechaun suit seeks his tax assistance in the matter of gold mines. Conned into visiting Ireland, Connor meets the beautiful Megan and her attractive witch of a mother Morag. He is ritually murdered, suffocated, kidnapped and revived. On his return to New York he is in the power of Live Corporation, a hedge fund seeking niche markets in evil. They require, as part of his management develop...

Irish Mythology and modern Multi-universe theory meet in an action adventure.A pre-Celtic artifact transforms into a bracelet and climbs up your arm. And now you can speak any language. And you can travel ‘time-lines’. Imagine a multiuniverse with a ‘Time-line’ for every possible future and present.When Kate, the daughter of an American Professor, finds the bracelet, she and her friends are catapulted into the ‘Time-lines’.Into a Time-line of modern day sophisticate...