Sex on the Moon - Ben Mezrich

Written by Ben Mezrich
Read by Casey Affleck
Format: M4B

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’s headquartersùpast security checkpoints, an electronically-locked door with cipher security codes and camera-lined hallwaysùand help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that itÆs illegal even to own? And was Thad Robertsùundeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronautùreally 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 the madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity all centred around an OceanÆs Eleven style heist that reads like a Hollywood thrill-ride.