How often does something you are looking forward to arrive EARLY? Well, that’s exactly what has happened with the sequel to The Chameleon. The Greatest Mann in the World–originally set to launch Memorial Day Weekend, will take its inaugural bow this Friday, May 1st instead. Yes, Christmas has indeed come early!
The latest installment of an ordinary man’s extraordinary life has nearly arrived. Andy Warhol once said, “Everyone wants to be famous”, to which photographer, Nat Finklestein responded, “Yeah, for about 15 minutes, Andy.” The implication was that fame wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. That was certainly true for John Mann, who after skyrocketing into the national spotlight as “The Chameleon”–a man who obtained and succeeded at five different high profile jobs all within a year–decided to drift back into a life of relative obscurity as a high school athletic director in a small Connecticut town. But whereas most people find fame as elusive as a shadow on an autumn day, for some people, fame seems to always find them.
In the sequel, we fast forward 8 years to Americans waking up one December morning to find it is snowing in Southern California, sunny and 80 degrees in our nation’s capital, and pitch black in Seattle in the middle of the day. All are the result of a freak tilt in the earth’s axis that is unlikely to correct itself anytime soon. The resulting environmental shift throws an already weak economy into further disarray during a Presidential election year. Unhappy with both major political parties, a billionaire businessman springs onto the scene and funds a party that will accept nominations for the highest office in the land from any U.S. citizen. All eyes suddenly settle once again on Yale educated, high school administrator, John Mann. There’s only one problem–he doesn’t want the job.
If you enjoyed The Chameleon, you’ll love The Greatest Mann in the World. Many of the same cast of characters from the first one return in this humorous, mildly political, character driven story about an average person thrown into an extraordinary circumstance following the belief that sometimes you don’t need to win, to win.
Available at booksellers everywhere tomorrow.