![]() 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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