Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age by Amelinckx, Andrew
Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age by Amelinckx, Andrew

Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age

"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a...
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Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age by Amelinckx, Andrew

Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age

$217.39
Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age by Amelinckx, Andrew

Satellite Boy: The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age

$217.39
Author: Andrew Amelinckx
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a good, engrossing yarn." --The Wall Street Journal

Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the "other Space Race" that gave birth to the modern communication age

On April 6, 1965, Georges Lemay was relaxing on his yacht in a south Florida marina following one of the largest and most daring bank heists in Canadian history. For four years, the roguishly handsome criminal mastermind hid in plain sight, eluding capture and the combined efforts of the FBI, Interpol, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His future appeared secure.

What Lemay didn't know was that less than two hundred miles away at Cape Canaveral, a brilliant engineer named Harold Rosen was about to usher in the age of global live television with the launch of the world's first twenty-four-hour commercial communications satellite. Rosen's extraordinary accomplishment would not only derail Lemay's cushy life but change the world forever.

Brimming with criminal panache and technological intrigue, and set against a turbulent and iconic period that includes the moon landing and the civil rights movement, Satellite Boy tells the largely forgotten, high-stakes story of the two equally driven men who inadvertently launched the modern era.

Author: Andrew Amelinckx
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781640096363

About the Author
ANDREW AMELINCKX is a freelance journalist who has previously written three historical true crime books. He held down a variety of jobs, from bartending in New Orleans to burlesque dancing in New York City, before spending a decade as an award-winning investigative crime reporter for several news organizations, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Berkshire Eagle. His work has appeared in Business Insider, Smithsonian, Men's Journal, Modern Farmer, and elsewhere. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
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