The Apollo Murders Mysterious Book Report No. 467 by John Dwaine McKenna The Apollo Murders, (Mulholland, $28.00, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-26453-2), by Chris Hadfield, is an alternate history of the cancelled Apollo 18 moon mission.  In the novel it takes place in 1973 and is re-imagined as a military reconnaissance mission to spy on a Soviet space station known as Alnaz.  Alnaz is nothing more than an orbiting ‘eye