Ben Mezrich

The subjects of Mezrich's nonfiction books have hopped into celluloid twice—the MIT card cheats of Bringing Down the House became the bored, sexy kids of 21 and the computer geeks of The Accidental Billionaires became the bored, somewhat sexy kids of The Social Network—so it follows there's a little Hollywood-baiting in Sex on the Moon, Mezrich's retelling of a heist that took place at NASA's Johnson Space Center.