
Satellite Boy
The International Manhunt for a Master Thief That Launched the Modern Communication Age
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Lawlor
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By:
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Andrew Amelinckx
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.
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Similar to an Erik Larson book. Excellent!
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED — this is a gripping history!!
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This was fun
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Interesting at times
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Surprised how well it kept my interest
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It was OK
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Not really what I expected
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Title is misleading but it was ok
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While I enjoyed this story overall, I found Patrick Lawlor’s pronunciation of French streets, cities, or names to be so far off from how they are pronounced locally, and what I was used to, that it was painful to hear and it took me out right of the story. So French speakers be warned that you will hear the narrator phonetically pronounce French words as if they English and just butcher what your ear expects. Oh and listen for Lawlor’s pronunciation of Chicoutimi, that one was cringeworthy!
Patrick Lawlor’s French is Horrible
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Keeps You Going
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