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The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Knopf Publishing Group
July 2011
On Sale: July 12, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0385533926
EAN: 9780385533928
Hardcover
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Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an ideaβa 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 NASAβpast security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallwaysβand help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that itβs illegal even to own? And was Thad Robertsβundeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronautβreally 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 Oceanβs Elevenβstyle heist, a madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
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