Description

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 didnt 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 worlds first twentyfourhour commercial communications satellite Rosens extraordinary accomplishment would not only derail Lemays 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 highstakes story of the two equally driven men who inadvertently launched the modern era