“The Rocketbelt Caper” by Paul Brown sounds like quite the real-life crime yarn.
[The Rocketbelt Caper] tells the incredible true story of the Rocketbelt 2000, a jetpack-type device built by friends Brad Barker, Larry Stanley and Joe Wright in Texas in the 1990s. The friends successfully completed and flew the rocketbelt, but then became embroiled in a feud. The Rocketbelt 2000 was stolen, Barker was kidnapped, Stanley was attacked with a hammer, and Wright was tragically murdered. Brown’s book tells of the search for the rocketbelt and the investigation into Wright’s murder.
Like most, I have a soft spot for rocket belts. (And Tribes-esque rocket shoes.)
