I like to sift and wander through antiques shops and even above the gadgets, gears and brass that attract me are books. I look for treasures. Some vendors know the values, some inflate them, sometimes there are just finds. This was one from a couple of months ago that I carved out a couple of hours for. It's not that long...I just savored it. The middle books of trilogies are more often than not fillers - not as good as the first, sometimes better than the last. I'd love to find his Mercury and Apollo books (okay...I just ordered them!) This is still epic stuff.

Detailed while eminently engaging, this is a story well told. Each flight; each crew; each success; each failure - yet the failures were successes on their own in solving the problems that need to be overcome to get to the moon. Gurney wrote well in this telling and I look forward to his other two about the space program. ( )