A satire for our times . . .

Young Billy Hoeksma, future governor of Michigan, is age six. He skips away from school one day in the early 1970s, urged on to steal a Playboy magazine. Young Billy heads off to the drug store in the wrong direction. He gets lost.

When Billy is reported missing by embarrassed school authorities, his wealthy father, the rising right-wing business and political figure William “Will” Hoeksma, Sr., fears the boy’s been kidnapped. He orders his private security team – headed by the enigmatic Viet Nam veteran Wilbur Tuttle – to find his son.

And so the legend of Bill Hoeksma begins . . .

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