The rather unusual murders connected with the “Apollo 18” mission to the moon are described in forensic detail. I thought it was “The Apollo Murder” until I got to murder no. Unusual deaths and murdersĪt first, I misread the title. It is Crime Thriller and thus has to be critiqued as such. Much of this actually happened.” It is very realistic, but still, it is Fiction. As he says in the epigraph: “Many of these people are real. Lordy, this makes me feel so inadequate! (Source: Wikipedia)Īt the back of the book in the “Author’s Note”, Hadfield lists the real people that he has included as characters, and the actual events and facts on which the story is based. Really reminds you that you’re flying.'” The Apollo Murders, by Chris Hadfield, p. He did one more turn to the right, Laura looking straight down out her side window at the dark waters of the bay. The contrast between the noisy rush of the dive and pull-up accentuated the ensuing grace and quiet as they floated over the top. The plane’s nose gently followed the arc back down, and he reversed and did the same thing in the other direction. “Kaz lowered the nose to pick up speed, and then smoothly pulled hard up and to the right until they were looking down the wing at the water, with airspeed slowed to bare flying speed. Every description rings true, from the technical details of space flight, to the characterization of the astronauts, and of course, the business of flying: The details in the novel show that Hadfield wrote from personal experience. So, the Apollo 18 program in the book is an invention, but totally authentic-sounding. The last “Apollo Mission” to the moon was NASA’s Apollo 17, which successfully landed on the moon on December 7, 1972. The Space Race was a phase of the Space Age, which the United States won when the manned Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Module “Eagle” landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
It starts in 1968, and is set against the background of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, in particular the Space Race between the two nations, which kicked off in 1955.
The setting of the novel fits exactly with Hadfield’s areas of expertise as a former astronaut, and his unusual life and career. The Apollo Murders, by Chris Hadfield (Publisher: Random House Canada Oct.
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