Polo in the Snow Richard Segal Once upon a time, there was a friendship between Johnny and Mano. Once upon another time, there was a brief rivalry for Johnny's attention, between Chloe and Rachel. Johnny and Chloe have children of their own now, still bedded down safely in Queens, though a little closer to the river, having turned down an opportunity to relocate to the mid-west or move to Williamsburg, aka Disneyland. Mano, like the mind games troubadours of old, found the call of California too much to resist, though in the cold and calculating world of high tech and more in tune with his inner retox than detox. However, to paraphrase a namesake, what happens when a lifelong jester is entrusted with tidings of old friends, of all tidings good, bad and tragic, and only he can choose how and when to break what to who? Can he be trusted with the incubation of a collision course with destiny? Meanwhile across the Atlantic ...