In this satiric romp inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, set in
2041, government-sanctioned vigilantes?the Good Humor Men?ruthlessly
patrol the streets, immolating all fattening food products as illegal
contraband. A pound of real chocolate is worth more on the black market
than a kilo of cocaine. Evil ?nutraceutical" company MannaSantos
controls the food market with genetically modified products, such as
?Leanie Lean" meats. But the craze for svelte healthfulness has reached
a critical turning point, as a mysterious wasting plague threatens to
starve all of humanity.
A lone ex-plastic surgeon and founding Good Humor Man, whose father
performed a secret liposuction surgery on Elvis Presley, holds the key
to humanity's future. In a mad dash to retrieve his family heirloom?the
mortal remains of the King's belly fat?Dr. Louis Shmalzberg becomes
entangled with a civil servant of questionable motives, an acquisitive
assassin from a wealthy Caliphate, a power-mad preacher evangelizing
anorexia, a beautiful young woman addicted to liposuction, and a
homicidal clone from a MannaSantos experiment gone terribly wrong.
Can Elvis save the world sixty-four years after his death?