Moonraker (James Bond) [Kindle Edition] Author: Ian Fleming | Language: English | ISBN:
B008L40R1E | Format: PDF, EPUB
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As the super patriot and war veteran who’s bankrolling Britain’s top-secret Moonraker rocket program, Sir Hugo Drax should be above reproach. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards in an exclusive gentleman’s club, he sends Bond in to investigate. But exposing the deception only enrages Drax—and now 007 must outwit an angry man with the power to loose a nuclear warhead on London.
The mysterious death of the head of security at Drax’s missile base gives Bond the perfect opportunity to go undercover to find out the secret agenda of the supposed British war hero. With the help of another agent, the lustrous Gala Brand, 007 learns the truth about Drax’s battle scars, his wartime allegiances—and his murderous plans for the deployment of Moonraker. Books with free ebook downloads available Download Moonraker (James Bond) [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 691 KB
- Print Length: 259 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612185452
- Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (October 16, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008L40R1E
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,760 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Bond author Ian Fleming was advised by friends to write his second Bond novel LIVE AND LET DIE before he had even tested the waters with his first 007 thriller CASINO ROYALE. Fleming's friends impressed on him that if the first novel failed he would be less inclined to write a second one. His friends need not have worried as is proved by this third 1955 entry into the James Bond literary series.
After some shaky elements in his first two novels Fleming and his characteristic Fleming-sweep, really hits its stride here and he delivers a thriller which is not only consistently ranked as one of the best by fans, but also a personal favorite of mine.
One of the great strengths of this book (as was the case with the subsequent 1979 movie adaptation) is the main villain Hugo Drax. A leading member of British society with a somewhat mysterious background, Drax is ostensibly building a weapon to help protect Britain, but all is not as it seems.
Bond's first encounter with Drax is at the behest of his superior M who is convinced the industrialist is cheating at cards at M's gentleman's club Blades. Bond uncovers the method behind Drax's remarkable winning streak but also effectively turns the tables on him.
In this novel Bond is not the superhero of the movie that would follow over two decades later. This is no clearly more evident than in his rejected advances towards Gala Brand, an undercover policewoman at Drax's plant. Brand is actually one of my favorite leading ladies of the Bond literary series, she is both independent and intelligent and one of the better drawn female characters of the Fleming books.
The plot is low-key enough, the villain suitably overblown and the heroine so irresistable as to make this compelling reading.
I've been rereading all of the 007 novels leading up to the release of the new movie of "Casino Royale" (by the way, the new movie rocks) and giving Ian Fleming another look. I'd read them as a kid 20 years ago and wondered how they read now.
"Moonraker" was the third book and I wasn't as excited as I'd been with "Casino Royale" and "Live and Let Die."
"Moonraker" plays out completely in London and the English coastline so the exotic aspect of 007's usual settings was missed, for me anyway. The first third of the novel reads too much like "Casino Royale"'s scenes at a gaming table, except that Bond isn't playing for high stakes to ruin a Russian bagman but to only expose a member at M's gentlemen's club as a card cheat.
(That Bond would later chase the villian who's kidnapped the girl, crash, and then also be captured was also reminiscent of "Casino Royale").
I also found it rather odd that a crew of Germans--not just atomic scientist Germans but an entire team of Germans handling everything--were working unmonitored on England's new missile defense system just one decade after WWII. It reminded me of the Monty Python sketch where a "Mr. Hilter" and his "school chums" are staying in a English bed and breakfast and plotting WWIII. That Bond, like everyone else in "Moonraker," wouldn't see that red flag was hard to get around.
Gala Brand, an undercover operative posing as Drax's secretary, isn't included in the first third and then she spends time ignoring Bond to keep her cover so Fleming doesn't give himself much time to turn her into a real Bond girl. By the end, you realize (as Bond did) that she had a whole unknown life before their little adventure that was greater than their "bonding" experience.
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