"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.

April, 1965. For four years Georges Lemay hid in plain sight on his yacht in a south Florida Marina, eluding capture and the combined efforts of the FBI, Interpol, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police following one of the largest and most daring bank heists in Canadian history. In Cape Canaveral, 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. The two seem unrelated-- but Amelinckx tells the largely forgotten, high-stakes story of the two equally driven men who inadvertently launched the modern communication age-- and ended Lemay's cushy life. -- adapted from jacket