Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

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Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (August 25, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780312282998
ISBN-13: 978-0312282998
ASIN: 0312282990
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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“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
Product Description Thad 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. Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History