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Smiley's People

John Le Carre

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The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last...

The Unprofessional Soldier - Memoirs of a Foot Soldier in the Mesopotamian Campaign of the Great War

David G. Alexander

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Are lessons ever really learned? Incredibly detailed and highly emotive, The Unprofessional Soldier...

David McK (3695 KP) rated Moonraker (James Bond, #3) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

I know I've seen it, but I don't really remember all the much about the 1979 Moonraker film (incidentally, the year I was born), other than that it starred Roger Moore (in his fourth role as James Bond), and that James Bond went into space.

James Bond does not go into space.

At least, not in the novel on which that film is (very loosely) based - or, more accurately, from which they took the title.

Instead, we have a Cold-War era spy thriller, with the Moonraker of the title really more of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (an IBM) rather than the Space Shuttle of the movie. Nor is there CIA involvement, nor a battle-in-space, nor a madman setting out to wipe out all life on Earth ... you get the picture.

There are, however, elements of the novel that make it into future Bond movies, in particular the facial reconstructive surgery of 'Die Another Day' clearly picking up it's cue from the background given to the central antagonist of Drax, and just what happened to him during the war.