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Sex on the Moon : The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich (2011, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385533926
ISBN-139780385533928
eBay Product ID (ePID)99679200
Product Key Features
Book TitleSex on the Moon : the Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPhysics / Astrophysics, General, Criminals & Outlaws, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Astronomy, Science & Technology, Criminology
Publication Year2011
GenreTechnology & Engineering, True Crime, Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorBen Mezrich
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-052240
ReviewsPraise for The Accidental Billionaires , the basis of the Oscar-winning film The Social Network "Uproarious . . . stimulating enough to keep even the un-medicated narcoleptic awake." - Washington Times "Mezrich's prose has a cinematic flavor." - Boston Globe "You won't be able to put the book down. The story's far too compelling, and entirely too personal, to toss aside." - Oregonian "High-octane page-turners, replete with sex, skullduggery, and plot twists worthy of James Patterson." - New York Times "The book is better; you should read the book." -Alex Rodriguez "You know you're onto something when Hollywood calls before your book is even out." - Entertainment Weekly "Sizzling . . . Mezrich's pop narrative reveals an American public greedy to read about the most intimate details of the sex, money, and betrayal in Facebook's formative history . . . energetic." - Telegraph "Mezrich paints a story of backstabbing, wild sex, hard drinking, and, at one stage, feasting on roasted koala on a yacht owned by a Silicon Valley millionaire." - Guardian, "[M]ovie-worthy treatment to the guy who stole moon rocks from NASA"-- The New York Daily News "[An] in-depth look at Thad Roberts, who along with three other NASA interns, stole pieces of lunar rock to impress his girlfriend. Mezrich has done extensive research to recreate the story of how an aspiring astronaut ended up getting caught for stealing over 100 pieces of the moon."-- The Atlantic Monthly "[A]n out-of-this-world heist"-- USA Today "Mezrich has uncovered another high-stakes, fascinating true story....part love story, part madcap caper, part astro-geekery, the book is one of the summer's most fun reads."--NPR Praise for The Accidental Billionaires , the basis of the Oscar-winning film The Social Network "Uproarious . . . stimulating enough to keep even the un-medicated narcoleptic awake." - Washington Times "Mezrich's prose has a cinematic flavor." - Boston Globe "You won't be able to put the book down. The story's far too compelling, and entirely too personal, to toss aside." - Oregonian "High-octane page-turners, replete with sex, skullduggery, and plot twists worthy of James Patterson." - New York Times "The book is better; you should read the book." -Alex Rodriguez "You know you're onto something when Hollywood calls before your book is even out." - Entertainment Weekly "Sizzling . . . Mezrich's pop narrative reveals an American public greedy to read about the most intimate details of the sex, money, and betrayal in Facebook's formative history . . . energetic." - Telegraph "Mezrich paints a story of backstabbing, wild sex, hard drinking, and, at one stage, feasting on roasted koala on a yacht owned by a Silicon Valley millionaire." - Guardian From the Hardcover edition., "[M]ovie-worthy treatment to the guy who stole moon rocks from NASA"-- The New York Daily News "[An] in-depth look at Thad Roberts, who along with three other NASA interns, stole pieces of lunar rock to impress his girlfriend. Mezrich has done extensive research to recreate the story of how an aspiring astronaut ended up getting caught for stealing over 100 pieces of the moon."-- The Atlantic Monthly "[Mezrich is] a genius at using characters and dialogue....to turn nonfiction into something as compelling as any thriller."-- The Chronicle Herald "[A]n out-of-this-world heist"-- USA Today "[A] fascinating story....has the readability of popular fiction, a ripping story, and great characters....Another winner from an extremely talented writer"-- Booklist , starred review "Mezrich has uncovered another high-stakes, fascinating true story....part love story, part madcap caper, part astro-geekery, the book is one of the summer's most fun reads."--NPR "Ben Mezrich, the gonzo-inspired biographer of Ivy League geeks.....[brings us a] stranger-than-fiction, true-life thriller of a man who went where no man has gone before....[the] story ticked all the boxes: a charismatic dreamer with a troubled past, a Romeo-and-Juliet love story, a geek-alicious high-tech setting, an ingenious Oceans 11 -style heist-and perhaps the most boneheaded mistake any man ever made to impress a girl. Even better, it was a journalist's Holy Grail: a truly uncovered story."-- Book Page "[E]nthusiastically re-creates this oddball 2002 moon-rock heist"--Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Accidental Billionaires , the basis of the Oscar-winning film The Social Network "Uproarious . . . stimulating enough to keep even the un-medicated narcoleptic awake." - Washington Times "Mezrich's prose has a cinematic flavor." - Boston Globe "You won't be able to put the book down. The story's far too compelling, and entirely too personal, to toss aside." - Oregonian "High-octane page-turners, replete with sex, skullduggery, and plot twists worthy of James Patterson." - New York Times "The book is better; you should read the book." -Alex Rodriguez "You know you're onto something when Hollywood calls before your book is even out." - Entertainment Weekly "Sizzling . . . Mezrich's pop narrative reveals an American public greedy to read about the most intimate details of the sex, money, and betrayal in Facebook's formative history . . . energetic." - Telegraph "Mezrich paints a story of backstabbing, wild sex, hard drinking, and, at one stage, feasting on roasted koala on a yacht owned by a Silicon Valley millionaire." - Guardian From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal364.16/28552
SynopsisThad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea--a 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 NASA--past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallways--and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that it's illegal even to own? And was Thad Roberts--undeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronaut--really 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 Ocean's Eleven -style heist, a madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
LC Classification NumberHV6248.R585M49 2011
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