Somebody stole it from its museum home in South America and smuggled it through U.S. Customs in a shipment of plastic imitations.

But the wrong one got delivered, and the million dollar statue, mixed with the 15 copies, is somewhere in New York.
Jerry Manelli is searching for it, as are Wall Street financiers, New Jersey union thugs, Manhattan aristocrats, college professors and PR men, liberated women and unliberated wives, tough guys and conmen, and sharpshooters of every kind.