Moonraker

A James Bond Novel

De: Ian Fleming

Narrado por: Alex Kingston

JAMES BOND INVESTIGATES A VILLAIN WITH THE POWER TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WARHEAD

Sir Hugo Drax is a multimillionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his new Moonraker missile defense system. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards, he is baffled that the patriot would risk his reputation and his rocket program on a game, so he assigns Bond to infiltrate Drax’s circle.

As 007 probes the activities at the Moonraker base in the days leading up to the beloved rocket’s maiden launch, he learns the truth about Drax’s battle scars, his wartime allegiances—and his murderous plans for the deployment of Moonraker.

©1955 Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Outstanding production and narration

The narrator pulled me right into the story and the production was flawless. Can’t wait for the next in the series from this group.

A bit long-winded but, hands down better then the movie..

This is my first time listening to an audiobook and actually my first time listening to an Ian Fleming novel. I've watched all of the James Bond movies and while Moonraker is typically panned by a lot of its core audience I find it rather charming. granted by the end I'm tuned out because they are trying rip off star wars.. but as far as the novel of the movie goes is a very different beast. I think the book is much better than the movie I wish the movie would have kept more in line with the book instead of going to space. The book is more grounded, it's a good listen. I highly recommend I think it's way better than the movie. I think it is a bit long-winded there's a lot of extra detail but it's like I guess you kind of need it to paint the scenes so to speak and to fill in the gaps but I felt like more or less a lot of the added exposition and add a detail just was just to make the book longer. That's all I felt it did it just made the pages longer than it needed to be and a lot of it could have been edited out I mean this is really at its core like a 5-hour book but they added so much miscellaneous detail to it that they turned it into an 8-hour book. Also got psyched out by the performance saw the name "Alex" thinking it would be a man reading but nope it's actually a woman reading it. (not that there's anything wrong with that just caught me off guard)

Bond doing what he does

I'm this story we find James Bond dropped onto a mystery he never saw coming. if all you know about Moonraker is the move, than sit back. you're in for treat as the novel is so different & even better

Never trust your nation's rocket program to a shadowy foreign billionaire

Never trust your nation's rocket program to a shadowy foreign billionaire

In truth, were it not for the fact that this 50's era topic is so timely today, I would have given this book a soft four stars. Though not terribly well written, #moonraker , the third novel on the #jamesbondseries by #ianfleming had many pulpy and disposable passages. The romantic set-up felt stilted and quite unnecessary as the story plays out over too short a window of time to make Bond's affections as deeply set as the story implies. But the set up is perfect as Bond does a solid for M's favorite private London men's gambling club where the manager suspects the new money darling, the CEO of a rare earth mining enterprise dealing in rare earth minerals who has pledged his fortune to head up England's missile program out of his own pocket, is also a despicable card cheat. Over high stakes bridge Bond confirms those suspicions and makes it clear to Hugo Drax, England's new favorite song, that he's aware of his double dealing ways.

Thus is Moonraker launched and, of course, the Bond villain turns out to be just as sinister as Bond and undercover Scotland Yard policewoman Gala Brand set out to uncover and to ferret out what Sir Drax has up his sleeve, other than marked cards of course. As it is set in the Cold War, both Russian Communists and Nazi Werewolves hover in the shadows intending to thwart England's nuclear ambitions as world influence and political dominance has shifted our of Old Europe to America where "the bomb" isn't just an untested aspiration. As I said, were it not for the fact that Drax proves to be an uncanny influence for a contemporary Rocketeer flush with mining money, this would just be decent Cold War spy noir.

Chillingly, it is so much more!

The Audible read by #alexkingston of #drwho and #er fame is absolutely perfect! She appears to be the official reader of the Bond Series and perfectly expressive.

Female narrator but it works

Can’t imagine why anyone would think that a female narrator could be right for bond novels because this choice just erects a barrier to enjoyment which is totally unnecessary. Still, this lady is superior to the earlier narrator. I liked this novel a lot at the start but found it paling rapidly for the final two hours.

Quintessential Bond

Good old fashioned spy novel. Entertaining/concise storyline, Great bad guy monologue, and made me want to read more from Ian Fleming!