![]() ![]() The novel opens with Bond practicing at a gun range before returning to his dully described office and desk in Whitehall for a look at his normal, deeply boring routine and his teasing relationship with his secretary Loelia Ponsonby. Fleming examines Englishness, and the novel shows the virtues and strength of England. The book plays on a number of 1950s fears, including attack by rockets (following the V2 strikes of the Second World War), Soviet communism, the re-emergence of Nazism and the "threat from within" posed by both ideologies. Uniquely for a Bond novel, the story is set entirely in Britain. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 with a paperback version was published the following year. ![]() Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. ![]()
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