“Moonraker”

Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service 007 agent James Bond. First published in the UK in April of 1955, the US hardcover edition was published in the US in September of that year. In December, the paperback edition was published in the US under the title “Too Hot to Handle” having been re-written to ‘Americanize’ many of the British language idioms, including footnotes from Fleming to explain some of the text for an American audience. In 1979, the motion picture Moonraker was released – the 11th film in the James Bond series, starring Roger Moore in his fourth outing as the fictional 007.