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Satellite boy : the international manhunt for a master thief that launched the modern communication age  Cover Image Book Book

Satellite boy : the international manhunt for a master thief that launched the modern communication age / Andrew Amelinckx.

Summary:

"Spanning the hemisphere from 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781640094802
  • ISBN: 1640094806
  • Physical Description: xviii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Counterpoint edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Lemay, Georges, 1925-2006.
Bank robberies > Québec (Province) > History > 20th century.
Artificial satellites.
Electronics in criminal investigation.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch 364.1552 L549a 2023 (Text) 33126025422084 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Independence Branch 364.1552 L549a 2023 (Text) 33126025422118 Adult Nonfiction Available -

  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2023 February

    The title of this book is the name that French-Canadian bank burglar Georges Lemay gave himself after a communications satellite led to his arrest. Amelinckx's (Exquisite Wickedness) book profiles Lemay and an engineer, Harold Rosen, who helped develop the first commercial communications satellite with a fixed orbit in 1965. Lemay was believed to be the mastermind behind one of the biggest bank robberies in Canadian history. The robbery, with more than $1 million stolen, occurred at a Montreal bank in 1961. Canadian police could not find Lemay until a Fort Lauderdale boat repairman who knew Lemay under an alias called the FBI after seeing a satellite TV broadcast of fugitives. The book's structure is chronological, starting in 1961 with the Montreal bank robbery, then Lemay's 1965 arrest, and ending with a recap of what happened to the players. The chapters alternate between Lemay's reckless antics and Rosen's drier satellite work. The book is entertaining and colorful; it reads like an expanded magazine article. For readers seeking a description of life on the lam, consider Dick Lehr's Black Mass, which is about the more careful criminal, Whitey Bulger. VERDICT Amelinckx's book is ideal for both true-crime and technology buffs.—Harry Charles

    Copyright 2023 Library Journal.

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