Award-winning
author, director, producer and screenwriter Kenneth Johnson has been
mesmerizing audiences with his wholly original and compelling science fiction
stories for more than four decades.
He is the creator of the ground-breaking and influential science fiction
television miniseries V, as well as producer of The Six Million
Dollar Man and creator of iconic Emmy-winning shows such as The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, and Alien Nation.
Now,
Johnson brings his creative genius and storytelling gifts to an ambitious
undertaking: an epic supernatural thriller rooted in one of the great untold
legends in human history. Here is a unique blend of gripping action, intriguing
characters, cinematic scenes, and a narrative interwoven throughout centuries
of historical fact in THE MAN OF LEGENDS (47North; July 1, 2017; original trade
paperback).
Set in
modern-day New York City, THE MAN OF LEGENDS presents a startling
mystery: a cursed but heroic man who does not age and cannot die, and who has
profoundly altered the course of human history for 2,000 years. It’s New Year’s
weekend, year 2001, and Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young writer for the National
Register, discovers an impossibility: the same man, un-aged, stands
alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different
photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.
Way uptown,
Will—a charming thirty-three-year-old of immense kindness, wit, and
intelligence—looks forward to 2002 in hopes of a new beginning. Haunted by
secrets from his past and shadowed by an ominous and taunting stranger, he
spends his hours offering help to people in need, making use of his inexplicable
omniscient knowledge. At the same time, an ambitious and obsessed Vatican
emissary leads a global manhunt in search of Will, and an elderly former UN
envoy named Hanna is consumed by wistful memories of a long-ago romance with
the enigmatic young man. The next forty-eight hours spin out of control to bring
Will, Jillian, and Hanna together, as well as the many New Yorkers whom Will’s
benevolent acts have touched—until they’re all in the crosshairs of a
centuries-old international conspiracy. Together, they face the consequences of
an ancient curse that stretches back two millennia and beyond and confront a
primal evil that is determined to consume them.
Told from
many characters’ perspectives—including that of an aging musician, a young
waitress, a teenage tagger, and a Latina child—THE MAN OF LEGENDS is a
complex and multilayered novel that is both a riveting and suspenseful thriller
and a shrewd examination of the way our decisions and actions affect others.
Heart-rending romance, unrelenting suspense, and a jaw-dropping climax make
this thriller a must-read this summer.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Kenneth
Johnson has been a successful writer-producer-director of film and television
for more than four decades. Creator of the landmark original miniseries V, he also produced The Six Million Dollar Man and created iconic Emmy-winning shows such as The Bionic Woman,
The Incredible Hulk, and Alien Nation.
He has directed numerous TV movies and the feature films Short Circuit 2
and Steel. Johnson has received multiple Saturn Awards from the
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, as well as the Sci-Fi
Universe Lifetime Achievement Award and the prestigious Founders Award from the
Viewers for Quality Television. His previous novels include V: The Second Generation. He has presented his unique graduate-level seminar, The Filmmaking Experience, at UCLA, USC, NYU, Loyola, New York Film Academy, the
National Film and Television School (UK), Moscow State University (Russia), and
many others. He and his wife, Susan, married for forty years, live in Los
Angeles with their latest two golden-retriever rescues.
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