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007 Book: Moonraker (1955)

June 27, 2014 0 By 007 Travelers

Bond book: Moonraker

Publication date: 5 April 1955

Moonraker is the third novel by British author Ian Fleming featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955, bearing a cover based on Fleming’s own concept. Set completely in England, the story has two halves: the first concerns a battle over a game of bridge in London’s clubland between Bond and industrialist Sir Hugo Drax, while the second follows Bond’s mission to stop Drax from destroying London with a nuclear weapon. The book played on a number of fears of the 1950s, including the V-2 rocket, the re-emergence of Nazism, the menace of Soviet communism and the ‘threat from within’.

There have been a number of adaptations of Moonraker, including a broadcast on South African radio in 1956 starring Bob Holness and a comic strip that appeared in the Daily Express in 1958. The novel’s name was also used in 1979 for the eleventh official film in the Eon Productions Bond franchise and the fourth to star Roger Moore as James Bond. However, the story for the film was significantly changed from the novel so as to include excursions into space.

CONTENTS

PART ONE. MONDAY

Chapter I. “Secret Paper-Work”
Chapter II. The Columbite King
Chapter III. ‘Belly Strippers’, etc.
Chapter IV. The ‘Shiner’
Chapter V. Dinner at Blades
Chapter VI. Cards With A Stranger
Chapter VII. The Quickness of the Hand

PART TWO. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY

Chapter VIII. The Red Telephone
Chapter IX. Take it from Here
Chapter X. Special Branch Agent
Chapter XI. Policewoman Brand
Chapter XII. The Moonraker
Chapter XIII. Dead Reckoning
Chapter XIV. Itching Fingers
Chapter XV. Rough Justice
Chapter XVI. A Golden Day
Chapter XVII. Wild Surmises

PART THREE. THURSDAY, FRIDAY

Chapter XVIII. Beneath The Flat Stone
Chapter XIX. Missing Person
Chapter XX. Drax’s Gambit
Chapter XXI. ‘The Persuader’
Chapter XXII. Pandora’s Box
Chapter XXIII. Zero Minus
Chapter XXIV. Zero
Chapter XXV. Zero Plus

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