When three friends set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000, or "Pretty Bird", shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder. From sci-fi to reality, this is the true story of the amazing rocketbelt.

The Rocketbelt The rocket-powered backpack was popularised in fiction by Buck Rogers and James Bond, but was developed for real for the US Army in the 1960s. The book's opening reveals its secret history. See the press release (PDF)	The Caper When three friends built their own rocketbelt, the project spiralled wildly out of control. The book investigates the murder of Joe Wright and the whereabouts of the missing Rocketbelt 2000. Read an extract (PDF)
Press & Media A selection of the book's current coverage is collected at the publisher's website. Journalists interested in features, reviews, interviews and/or photos please contact the publisher. www.tontopress.com	Rocketbelt Movies Movie rights to The Rocketbelt Caper have been optioned by a major Hollywood studio. Other movies based on the RB2000 story are in production or development, including Pretty Bird starring Paul Giamatti, to be released in 2008.
Radio Spot BBC Radio interview with author Paul Brown discussing the story behind The Rocketbelt Caper, the interest from Holyywood, and how the book came to be written. Right click the file to 'save as'. Radio spot (mp3)	Thunderball Feature The rocketbelt famously appeared in the opening sequence of the James Bond movie Thunderball. This is a feature I wrote for the movie's commemorative 30th anniversary programme in 2005. Thunderball feature (PDF)