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When three men set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000 shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder. From sci-fi to reality, this is the incredible true story of the amazing rocketbelt. "A delight to read. Genuinely stranger than fiction. Recommended." - Popular Science UK.
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Paul Brown is a writer from the north-east of England. He writes about football, history and true adventure, and has been published in the Guardian, FourFourTwo and When Saturday Comes.
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"A delight to read. Genuinely stranger than fiction. Recommended." - Popular Science UK"Reads like good movie material." - BBC Focus"There's probably a Tarantino movie in this somewhere." - Fortean Times"A can't-put-it-down murder mystery that shows how obsession and betrayal can lead people to commit dastardly deeds." - General Aviation News"Begins with a brief history of rocketbelts that's probably the best ever in print." - Beam Jockey"The story has all the markings of a Hollywood blockbuster, and is a bizarrely unforgettable read." - The Crack"This book is a must have." - Airwalker Society of Rocketbelt Enthusiasts"25 greatest summer reads." - ShortList
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- PublisherSuperelastic
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0956227007
- ISBN 13 9780956227003
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages174
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