Moonraker
First edition: Glidrose, 1955
First Italian edition (the grand slam title of his death), Garzanti, 1965
Translation: Roselia Irti Rossi
last edition (title Moonraker), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005
Translation: Maximum Bocchiola
"There is only one question ... "He tapped his teeth against the mouthpiece of the pipe.
"What matter, sir?" Asked Bond.
M seemed to make a decision. He looked calmly towards Bond.
"Sir Hugo Drax coffin to the cards'
returned to its ordinary activities, after a period of convalescence from wounds suffered during his last mission in Jamaica (see Live and Let Die), agent 007 resumes its daily routine. The days pass until a quiet night M asked a favor. The head of Bond is a member of the prestigious circle Blades, which counts among its members the cream of the English bourgeoisie. Among them there is Sir Hugo Drax, an exporter of minerals, immediately after the war became rich through trade of Columbia, which is used in vehicles to react. The billionaire has offered the Queen his means to achieve a spectacular rocket defense, Moonraker, intended to strike, in case of aggression, the enemies of the United Kingdom. This proposal was accepted by the government, did Drax the national hero in Britain. The President of Blades, however, suspected that the magnate bari bridge. If so, that would be very injurious to the reputation of the premises. He therefore asks M for help. The latter invites Bond to dinner at the club, so that studies Drax at the card table. Its task is to verify whether the billionaire actually put make-up games to win money. The same evening
Bond is at the club and was presented to the charismatic character. The expert player takes a few minutes to realize that Drax coffin, helped by a silver cigarette case that hides a mirror. Bond Drax challenge to a game of bridge that ends with the defeat dell'iracondo billionaire.
The next day Bond is given a delicate mission. On the evening of playing cards a ministry official dell'Approvigionamento - Major Tallon - was murdered at a pub near the base of Moonraker. The agent was responsible for overseeing operations in the test launch of the rocket, scheduled for that Friday. Apparently the crime would seem to be passionate nature. The killer, in fact, committed suicide soon after he confessed to killing his rival for the love of the beautiful Gala Brand, the secretary of Drax, agent of the British police infiltrated a secret within the team.
Bond has a mandate to replace the largest and the Tallon same time to investigate his mysterious death.
arrived at the missile base on the edge of the cliffs between Dover and Deal, 007 is received with warmth by Drax which leads him to visit the plant and the sleek missile of death. Bond is favorably impressed and is also the knowledge dell'affascinante Agent Brand. However there are some things that do not fit. First, the formal staff of Drax's closest collaborators, in particular the trust and engineer Walter Krebs. Moreover, during a patrol on the cliffs Bond and Gala are overwhelmed by a cascade of rocks and almost lose out the skin. On launch day approaches and one night the Brand, while in the car with Drax, he discovers that the codes to launch the rocket, in the notebook of his principal, does not coincide with the ones you wrote down for months. Everything seems to believe, in fact, that the use of atomic power is not the sea overlooking Dover, but London itself. Gala is discovered by Drax and is taken prisoner. His passing has not gone unnoticed, as Bond had a date with her. The agent gets on the trail of Drax, and after being followed by car, discovers that the girl is in his hands. Thus begins a chase on the main road from London to Dover between the 007 and the Bentley driven by Merceders Skk Drax culminating in the capture of ours. Bond and Gala are caught in the middle: just a few hour to the launch of the missile and Drax reveals his true identity. He is a Nazi, mistaken for a case during the war in English. Now you can finally take revenge upon the perfidious Albion scaraventadole his weapon. It seems all finished but Bond manages to escape and reprogram the gyros of the rocket, just in time to save his country nuclear holocaust ...
Of all the novels dedicated to 007 Moonraker is less known to the readers our own for a number of reasons. The first is due to various reasons with which it was circulated by Garzanti, The grand slam of death . The second is due to the horrible film, half between parody and the comic book, which Lewis Gilbert filmed in the early 80s and of which more later.
is a pity that the book has met with limited success because we Moonraker is a concentration of incidents in pure british sauce. First, this is the only story set entirely in the United Kingdom (more precisely between London and the Kent countryside), and also the volume is full of personal information about our hero on his daily life. In the novel, we learn, in fact, Bond has about 37 years, working in a dreary office, a secretary (LOEL Ponsoby), goes to the table every day, lives in a small flat in King's road, governed by its valuable domestic Scotsman named May, and spends his free time with three lovers (all married), or to play golf.
Bond in this new adventure sports all his insufferable snobbery Englishman who leads him to boast even British cooking, he said "the best in the world."
The novel is divided into days, Monday through Friday, to mark the excitement inherent in the upcoming launch of the rocket.
The game of bridge that opens the story is wonderfully described and recalls that at chemin de fer Casino Royale.
Once again the villain is the classic cliché of physiognomic Fleming. Stocky, horrible appearance, her face disfigured by fire, a horrible red hair and a mustache that cover a visible projection of the dental arch. In the past, Drax's working with Otto Skorzeny, the German espionage Oberturbandführer whose moves Fleming had studied for years during the war.
The Bond girl is silent but beautiful Englishwoman who, virtually single thing, refusing to accept the courtship of Bond, leaving him alone in the final.
The novel is full of autobiographical elements also means the process of identification between Fleming and Bond is getting closer. Bond is described as "sad," an adjective that many women were scrambled to Fleming. For more on the character's creator download some of his physical and mental stress. For this book
Fleming sacked his favorite corner of England, Kingsdown, where Drax builds his rocket on the cliffs of Deal, is then quoted the favorite of the writer, that Café Royal in Dover, where Bond eat scrambled eggs with ham with plenty of coffee. The club Blades Finally, some reminiscent of White's Club, of which Fleming was a member from 1936 to 1940.
The tone and melancholy of twilight Moonraker is also due to its permanence. Fleming is a nomad, a traveler was born, and England is close to him and his creature. For the two is Now is the time to go away ...
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