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“Johnson takes a big gamble by telling such a complex tale invoking every genre imaginable while juggling distinct and deep characterizations. The bet pays off, resulting in a story that will be popular with book clubs and fun to discuss.” —Associated Press

New York City, New Year’s weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist, stumbles onto a tantalizing mystery: the same man, unaged, stands alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.

In another part of town, Will—an enigmatic thirty-three-year-old of immense charm, wit, and intelligence—looks forward to the new year with hope and trepidation. Haunted by his secret past and shadowed by a dangerous stranger, he finds himself the object of an intense manhunt spearheaded by an ambitious Vatican emissary and an elderly former UN envoy named Hanna.

During the next forty-eight hours, a catastrophic event unites Will, Jillian, and Hanna—and puts them in the crosshairs of a centuries-old international conspiracy. Together, the three must unravel an ancient curse that stretches back two millennia and beyond, and face a primal evil that threatens their lives and thousands more.

Award-winning science-fiction mastermind Kenneth Johnson blends epic adventure, romance, and evocative drama into an intense supernatural thriller rooted in one of the great untold legends of human history.

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“Kenneth Johnson has once again created a timeless tale that offers up adventure, suspense and romance all wrapped up tightly in a supernatural mystery.” —Suspense Magazine

About the Author

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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Publisher : 47North (July 1, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 427 pages
ISBN-10 : 1477819681
ISBN-13 : 978-1477819685
Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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Sexually explicit content on a child in this book. Shame on Amazon!

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

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I am not sure how to begin on this book. The author is very talented in his writing but I am beyond appalled at some of the content he decided to put in his book that could have been left out and should have been left out. There was a way to convey the emotions a certain character had from tragic events in her life as a child to why she chose to do what she did for a child in need other than the vile way the author chose to write about the events that took place in that characters life. How anyone could recommend reading this with the content left in this book is beyond me. We live in a time that you can be imprisoned for watching child pornography but an author writing about horrific sexually explicit content that happened to a little girl & her perpetrators disgusting acts upon that child in complete and full detail that could give mentally unstable men or boys ideas as to what they could possibly do to a child is beyond me. Yes these horrendous acts happen but to put in a book in such a sexually explicit way should never be allowed, it should be criminal. I am flabbergasted that it even made it to being published and how Amazon could even recommend it for a First To Read program. There should have been a warning on this book! Had the author left out that horrendous act it would have been a good book but I will never read another book or anything from this author again.

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Forrest Gump does Judeo-Christian theological fantasy

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2017

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Let me state at the outset that I liked THE MAN OF LEGENDS, because it might not sound that way from some of the things I say in the review. At the outset, set in 2001 New York City, young journalist Jillian Guthrie who works for a National Enquirer-like tabloid is puzzled when she discovers what looks like the same man at the same age in the background of photos famous people taken in various places at times spanning over a century. One with U.S. Grant after the Civil war, another with Ghandi just before his assassination and so on. With a little digging she discovers several more photos and becomes obsessed with finding out who this guy is and how this can be. We soon meet the mystery man, Will, who seems to spend his days handing out $20 or $50 to street people, befriending Tito, a teenage "tagging" artist who happens to select Will's motor home as his next canvas, and performing other acts of random kindness. There are various hints that Will is old, very, very old, and that there are some odd constraints on where he can be and how long he can stay in one place before he has to move on. Things get more and more interesting as we gradually find out who and what Will really is and what is really going on, before everything culminates in a Grand Guignol of biblical proportions.

The writing is fine, but sort of pulpy ( in the same way that the TV series "V" was). This is a beach read, not fine highbrow literature. But who cares? The story is told in a series of shortish chapters, each written with Jillian, Will and a host of other characters as the first person narrator. A couple of times I had to flip back and remind myself who the narrator was at the moment, but basically things flowed smoothly. The pacing was steady, and the author takes his time revealing Will's secrets a bit at a time. I liked that, despite the wish several times that the author would get to it already. The final reveal about Willl, takes place well before the fireworks at the end and was pretty predictable, but hey, so what? It was still very enjoyable.

The bad guys here are the Catholic Church, instantiated by Father St. Jacques, a Vatican envoy who has been chasing Will all over the world for the better part of 30 years. The Vatican wants to lock Will up, because he is a threat to their whole business model. Jillian is not a very nice person at the start of the story. She's short-tempered and bigoted, and very hard to like. As a main character, that's a bit rough to take, and her Scrooge-like conversion at the end sees a bit sudden. Will, on the other hand, is impossibly nice and kind, as are all the other people that we meet except for St. Jacques, who, I suppose, has a reason to be a bit prissy and pissy, although I think the author might be overplaying him just a bit.

All in all, an interesting concept novel that will appeal to fantasy fans unless they are easily insulted by anyone who says a bad word about the Church. I, for one, liked it.

Recommended.

JM Tepper

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Bluesgal

dragged on forever

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2018

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S. L. Brent wrote a helpful review here on Amazon that gave this book 3 stars. He said that this book had a great premise, was intriguing, and had writing that grabbed him and kept him reading, but that the story meandered and seemed lost. Great review, Brent.

I absolutely agree with all of these things, except that I am not so forgiving with my stars. This book dragged on to the point where I found a review that summed up the last 100 pages so I didn't have to bother.

Also, there were too many characters, almost to the point of confusion. I'd just get interested in a character and then poof! They were gone for 50 pages. I liked some of these characters and hated others. I liked the budding artist but disliked the reporter. Plus, I do not believe that a priest could be such a caricature of evil. And I'm not even Catholic. Or religious.

I will probably try another book by this author because he sure can write. He writes so well that I have remembered this book for almost a year, so you know it had to be well written. But it was SUCH a disappointment after the great beginning.

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Don't waste your time

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017

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Where to start? The premise is intriguing, but the execution wasn't. It read like an overwrought Victorian novel. Johnson has never met an adjective or an adverb that he hasn't wanted to use, and use them he did. The book probably would have been a novella if he had taken even half of them out. And by the end of the book I wanted to start a drinking game for every time the author referred to a character as "the sleek, young man". I would have been falling down drunk after two pages. The more I read the more I wondered where his editor was because this novel reads as though he didn't have one.

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SLB, Jr.

Started fast, faded far too long and peaked.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2017

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A great premise.
It was intriguing, the writing grabbed me and pulled me through the first 150 pages. Who or what was Will? I changed my mind a couple of times.
Then the story meandered; it seemed lost...
It peaked in a strong sequence and slid home.
300, rather than 420, pages would have made for a tighter book.

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Mary Josefina Cade

Heaven on earth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2017

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The Man of Legends is a truly cosmic book. Its correct classification is metaphysical. Marketing this book as an occult thriller may target the wrong audience and lead to disappointment. The cover is also misleading. When I bought it I imagined that I'd be reading an adventure story, a mystery.

To get the most out of this deeply felt story the reader needs to be able to tune in to a spiritual view of human existence and to have a belief in the reality of love and redemption. I'm extremely cynical usually, but I did enjoy the author's exuberant belief in transformation and especially, also, the last few scenes. If only it were true......

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Steven P. Carter

Apocalyptic but a good page turner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2017

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Difficult book to review. It leaps about from person to unknown person, as is the current vogue in novels these days. Here the narrative can often switch between the two people in a scene. I was enjoying the first half of the book, it has enough to keep you reading - "Our hero", supposedly not dying and moving from century to century escaping the Vatican. But after half way, the author started to rope every famous person in, "our hero" just happens to meet them and perhaps gives them their eureka moment, it became sycophantic and nauseating after a while and he may be wise after 2,000 yrs but he isn't omnipresent but putting that to one side, it is a good read if a bit apocalyptic.

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Runninglate

I liked it, much to my surprise.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2017

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I chose this as my Kindle First book for July; as it was free I stepped outside of my usual genre preference and I'm very glad I did. It's quite gripping.

The basic premise - here is a man 'cursed' by God to live forever - contains its own mystery: who is he and why was he so cursed. The answers to this slowly become clear and are both clever and heartbreaking. A second layer is added to the story by the increasing sense of urgency developed by the Catholic Church's hunt for our man of mystery, the priest charged with this task never more than a few days behind and now literally right at his bedside.

This is a good story, gently told. It delivers everything the reader requires and, vitally, the ending we crave.

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Mr. Robin Glover

From the Guy that brought you 'Alien Nation'.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2018

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I was expecting a Time Travel book according to the advertising blurb which is why the star rating is so low, because it is a time travel book only if you regard time travel, as moving throughout life at the same pace as everyone else, in other words, it is NOT time travel at all as we expect it to be. It's about a fellow (and the first I've heard of it) who basically tells Jesus to 'git orf his land' on the way to his crucifixion and is cursed to wander the planet until Jesus (or the next incarnation of same) re-appears. Not only that but he actually (apparently) thumps Jesus (Booo!) while doing so and so not only has he got enforced wanderlust, he has to hike the Earth suffering pains if he stays in one place longer than three days and moving a minimum distance of three thousand yards each time, not being able to return to a place for three hundred and thirty three years or something like that (see the pattern here folks). Along the way and over two thousand years he meets what seems like every major figure in history (Man of Legends, Geddit?) and has a hand in most technical, scientific and humanistic inventions along the way while being pursued by the Catholic Church who want to use him as proof of God's existence while treating him as a lab rat and, it would appear the Devil is also looking to recruit him. So to Recap, NOT time travel more a religious 39 steps. Have Fun.

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LilyGreenEyes

Conflicted conclusion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2019

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I loved bits of this book, I really did. The premise, Will, Hanna - just some of the outstanding elements. But then there were other parts that I found held it back. Whilst I appreciate what Johnson was trying to do, the constant perspective changes were often hard to follow, and the dialects used were often hard to read. Aside from the few main players, I think the majority could have been told differently and the book would've had a greater flow. Hence my conflicting thoughts, I loved parts, but equally found some of those parts poorly thought out.

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