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Moonraker - Ian Fleming

Description: ISBN 0141028335 / Author: Ian Fleming / Genre: Crime / Thriller / At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card ... more

Moonraker - Ian Fleming ... table, on a mission to teach the millionaire and head of the Moonraker project a lesson he won't forget, and prevent a scandal engulfing Britain's latest defence system. But there is more to the mysterious Drax than simply cheating at cards. And once Bond delves deeper into goings on at the Moonraker base, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they pretend to be.

Newest Review: ... Bond taking the place of a recently murdered undercover agent who was working on the Moonraker project. Bond must find out ... more

... who was behind the murder and ensure that no-one can sabotage the very public test launch. As mentioned above the story has two distinct parts, although the book is split in three parts. The first at the card table is engrossing. The battle of wits and wills between the two men is captured brilliantly by Fleming and you really feel like you are experiencing the game. However, my only complaint with this part of the book was that I felt you needed a fairly good knowledge of Bridge to fully appreciate what was going o...more

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Moonraker - Ian Fleming: The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the l ... (1044 words)
by - written on 12/06/09 (Very useful, 54 readings)
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'Moonraker' is the third book in the James Bond series by Ian Fleming. After the first two books, establishing the evil network of SMERSH, I expected further developments in that storyline however this is more of a standalone, one-off story. This story picks up with Bond's boss, M, asks Bond for a favour. He is a member of a gentlemans' club and suspects that one of the members is cheating at the card table. This member is winning every time he plays which makes M assume that he is cheating in some way. Knowing that Bond is an expert card player he hopes that he will be able to spot the method of cheating and teach the member a severe financial lesson. ... Read the complete review

"The man who was only a silhouette" (1142 words)
by - written on 20/06/08 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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Moonraker was the third James Bond novel in the series of books written by the great Ian Fleming and originally published in 1955. The story revolves around a mysterious tycoon called Sir Hugo Drax. Drax, in a move regarded as an altruistic gesture to the British Government, is the driving force behind a nuclear missile project called 'Moonraker' which he is developing in Kent near the coast. The revolutionary missile contains top secret elements that only Drax controls. It will safeguard the security of Britain in the unstable and uncertain era of the cold war. When M, the head of the British Secret Service - MI6 - discovers that Drax may be cheating at ... Read the complete review