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Moonraker

  • 255 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1955
  • 107 editions

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1 About this book

Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate— This Is the Face of Hugo Drax, The Mystery Man Behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!!

Good for readers who want: spy fiction and adventure.

  • Espionage
  • Thrillers
  • Thrillers, espionage
  • Spy stories
  • Adventure
  • Mystery
  • Spy
  • Espionage & spy thriller

2 About Ian Fleming

1908–1964

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father Valentine Fleming was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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