The Astronaut's SonAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 6 April 2021
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On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing comes a novel in which a Jewish astronaut must reassess his moral compass when forced to confront NASAâ?Ts early collaboration with Nazis and the role it may have played in his fatherâ?Ts death. Jonathan Stein, the CEO of Apollo Aeronautics, is an ambitious polymath who has spent a lifetime determined to accomplish two tasks: First, to complete his fatherâ?Ts unfulfilled mission to reach the moon, and second, to forge a relationship with the reclusive Neil Armstrong. Despite a heart condition, heâ?Ts on the verge of his first goal, but has gotten nowhere with the second. Armstrong has never responded to any of Jonathanâ?Ts dozens of letters. Avi Stein was an Israeli pilot specially chosen to command Apollo 18 in 1974, but suffered a fatal heart attack before launch. Now, months from being able to realize his fatherâ?Ts dream, Jonathan discovers a â?olunar hoaxâ?? conspiracy website offering a disturbing reason for Armstrongâ?Ts silence: He knows Jonathanâ?Ts father didnâ?Tt die of natural causes. While researching his fatherâ?Ts last days in the National Archives, Jonathan expects to confirm the official cause of death, but what he uncovers insteadA is a motive for murder. To get to the truth, Jonathan must confront Dale Lunden, his fatherâ?Ts best friend and the last man on the moon.
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