Satellite Boy, by Andrew Amekinckx

Amekinckx is one of those writers with a special talent for finding history's quirky connections. His page turner takes us back to the early 1960s when satellite technology made possible Our World, the first live, multi-national TV broadcast. As Amekinckx follows the American engineer Harold Rosen's efforts to launch Cold War-inspired geostationary communications--as well as the early Our World segment tracking Canadian bank robber George Lemay's mad last dash for freedom across Montreal--he guarantees you will never watch live TV in the same way again.