Moonraker - Ian Fleming

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 ...