In his provocative, crackling new novel, Andrew Lipstein spins a wicked web through the heart of Copenhagen. You’ll question everyone and everythingeven the very nature of truth.

Cecilie is a fed-up New York Times reporter. Her husband, Reuben, is a disgraced former NPR host and grudging stay-at-home dad. Neither can wait to flee New York and spend the summer in Copenhagen, Denmark, Cecilies hometown. But their vacation begins to turn inside out as soon as they land: Cecilies first love, Jonas, has been diagnosed with a rare, fatal illness. All of Cecilies friends are desperate to get him helpthat is, except for Mikkel, a high-powered journalist who happens to be the only one Jonas will listen to.

Mikkels influence quickly extends to Reuben, whos not only intoxicated by Mikkels charm, but discovers in him a new model of masculinityone he found hopelessly absent in America. As Mikkel indoctrinates Reuben with ever more depraved stunts, Reuben senses something is seriously amiss. Cecilie, too, begins to question who to trusteven herself. Drawn in by the gravity of the past, she cant help but stray onto the road not taken.

A twisting, thrilling tale of loyalty and deceit, lovers and fools, Andrew Lipstein’s Something Rotten proves that sometimes to be kind you have to be cruel beyond belief.