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"[M]ovie-worthy treatment to the guy who stole moon rocks from NASA"--_The New York Daily News
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"[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
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"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
"[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
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Mezrichs prose has a cinematic flavor.
_ Boston Globe
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You wont be able to put the book down. The storys far too compelling, and entirely too personal, to toss aside.
_ Oregonian
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High-octane page-turners, replete with sex, skullduggery, and plot twists worthy of James Patterson.
_New York Times
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The book is better; you should read the book.
Alex Rodriguez
You know youre onto something when Hollywood calls before your book is even out.
_Entertainment Weekly_
Sizzling . . . Mezrichs pop narrative reveals an American public greedy to read about the most intimate details of the sex, money, and betrayal in Facebooks 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
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Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an ideaa 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 NASApast security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallwaysand help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks.
But what does one do with an item so valuable that its illegal even to own? And was Thad Robertsundeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronautreally 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 Oceans Elevenstyle heist, a madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
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