Published: 19 November 2012
ISBN: 9780099576877
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
RRP: $14.99

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Moonraker

Ian Fleming

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There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions.

Sir Hugo Drax is a multi-millionaire business tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his Moonraker missile defence programme. So why does he risk destroying his reputation and the future of the Moonraker programme by gambling millions of pounds at the card table, and is there something suspicious about his winning streak?

As ‘the best card-player in the service’, Bond is called in to uncover the answers.

But as 007 probes deeper into the activities at the Moonraker base, he discovers that there is more to the mysterious Drax his project than simply cheating at cards...

Published: 19 November 2012
ISBN: 9780099576877
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
RRP: $14.99

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About the author

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and was an instant success. Fleming went on to write twelve other Bond books as well as two works of non-fiction and the children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Bond books have sold over sixty million copies and earned praise from figures such as Raymond Chandler who called Fleming ‘the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England’ and President Kennedy who named From Russia with Love as one of his favourite books. The books inspired a hugely successful series of film adaptations which began in 1961 with the release of Dr No, starring Sean Connery as 007. Fleming was married to Anne Rothermere with whom he had a son, Caspar. He died in 1964.

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Double the 007: Casino Royale and Live and Let Die (James Bond 1&2)

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Praise for Moonraker

A series of blood-curding and incredible excitements…I couldn’t put the book down
Daily Telegraph

Do not miss this...Irresistibly readable
Observer

I don’t know anyone who writes about gambling more vividly than Fleming
New York Times

A series of blood-curding and incredible excitements…I couldn’t put the book down until it was finished
Telegraph

One of the most accomplished of thriller-writers... Moonraker is as mercilessly readable as all the rest
Listener

Moonraker scores with brilliant exploitation of M at the dinner at Blades, and the splendid bridge trap set by Bond to catch the infamous crypto-Nazi, Sir Hugo Drax. Drax is by far the best characterised of all Bond's villains
Observer