Moonraker Ian Fleming

Publisher: A Signet Book Published by The New American Library Edition: Twentieth Year: Description: F, 175 pp.; First published by Jonathan Cape on April 5, 1955.; owner stamp front free endpaper; Bond joins his boss M at London Gentlemen's Club Blades to stop a member, Sir Hugo Drax, from cheating at a game of bridge. Bond is later put on Drax's first British Moonraker nuclear missle project. Bond discovers that Drax is an ex-nazi working for the Soviets; he also establishes that the missle is not to be used for defense as intended but Drax plans to use it to destroy London. Bond re-targets the missle to the North Sea where it kills Drax.---Wikipedia; Made into a Hollywood movie (1979) directed by Lewis Gilbert starring Roger Moore as James Bond, Lois Chiles as Lois Goodhead, and Michael Lonsdale as Drax.; Ian Fleming b.1908 - d.1964 Author: Ian Fleming