Moonraker - (James Bond)

Ian Fleming

Penguin Books

2006

310 páginas

10h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780141028330

Moonraker is the third novel by British author Ian Fleming featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955, bearing a cover based on Fleming's own concept. Set completely in England, the story has two halves: the first concerns a battle over a game of bridge in London's clubland between Bond and industrialist Sir Hugo Drax, while the second follows Bond's mission to stop Drax from destroying London with a nuclear weapon. The book played on a number of fears of the 1950s, including the V-2 rocket, the re-emergence of Nazism, the menace of Soviet communism and the 'threat from within'.

There have been a number of adaptations of Moonraker, including a broadcast on South African radio in 1956 starring Bob Holness and a comic strip that appeared in the Daily Express in 1958. The novel's name was also used in 1979 for the eleventh official film in the Eon Productions Bond franchise and the fourth to star Roger Moore as James Bond. However, the story for the film was significantly changed from the novel so as to include excursions into space.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

Não me agradou tanto, apesar de ter bons momentos.

O que mais me incomodou foi a narrativa um tanto arrastada. Há momentos de quase nenhuma tensão, muito por conta do vilão que só passa a oferecer perigo de forma direta do meio pro final.

A relação de Bond com Gala Brand é até interessante, apesar de não ser tão bem desenvolvida.

Poderia ser melhor, mas não é uma leitura de todo ruim.