Walter Hudson and the Mackinac Island Affair

<p>It's the summer of 1966 – and on Michigan's Mackinac Island against his will young Walter Hudson an aspiring scientist with a passion for the space program feels trapped and out of place. His big-city upbringing is at odds with kids who enjoy winter and ride horses and he thinks nothing interesting will ever happen on an eight-mile around dot of land where they don't even have cars. Then he's witness to a plot to bribe Governor Romney to stall housing integration his newspaper-editor mother goes to jail to protect him as a source and he has to learn a few tricks of the journalism trade. While grappling with the bad guys Walter has to make a white knuckle-escape by helicopter. The pilot is Jane Hart Senator Phil Hart's wife who's trying to become an astronaut while space is still a male-only club.</p>