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Sex on the Moon : the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history / Ben Mezrich.
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- ISBN: 9780385533928 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 308 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Doubleday, c2011.
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- Baker & Taylor
Draws on court records, FBI transcripts, NASA documents and first-person interviews to reconstruct NASA fellow Thad Roberts's theft of invaluable moon rocks, offering insight into Roberts's personality, the nature of his accomplices and their sophisticated break-in plan. (This book was previously listed inForecast .) 150,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Draws on court records, FBI transcripts, NASA documents, and first-person interviews to reconstruct NASA fellow Thad Roberts' theft of invaluable moon rocks, offering insight into Roberts' personality and the nature of his accomplices. - Baker & Taylor
In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall. - Random House, Inc.
Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an ideaâa romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.
Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASAâpast security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallwaysâand help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks.
But what does one do with an item so valuable that itâs illegal even to own? And was Thad Robertsâundeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronautâreally what he seemed?
Mezrich has pored over thousands of pages of court records, FBI transcripts, and NASA documents and has interviewed most of the participants in the crime to reconstruct this Oceanâs Elevenâstyle heist, a madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
