Brand is also undercover as Drax's secretary at the Moonraker facility. Following a suspicious murder suicide at the Moonraker facility, Secret Agent James Bond is brought in to secretly observe the happenings the days before the first launch of the missile.īond is working with a police officer from Scotland Yard, the beautiful Gala Brand. During the cold war, he pledges to fund and create the Moonraker rocket, an enormous missile capable of delivering an atomic bomb to any city in Europe. He donates to many worthy causes around the country and wins the love of the British public. Following the war, he makes millions in businesses abroad and then returns to England to spend his fortune. The army doctors suspect he is an orphan named Hugo Drax, and he takes on this identity. Following World War II, he is a soldier suffering from amnesia, with no idea who he is.

Sir Hugo Drax seems to be a shinning example of everything Britain can achieve. There are just hours to go before the plan is enacted, and Bond has to find someway to escape and stop the madman. Before they can warn anyone, Bond and Brand are captured and held captive. He is planning on sending the Moonraker into the center of London and detonating an atomic bomb. The day before the launch of the Moonraker, Bond, with the assistance of police officer Gala Brand, discovers that Drax is actually a German agent working for the Soviets. Bond senses something suspicious but can find no evidence of contravention. Shortly after, Bond meets Drax again as he is assigned to work security at Drax's Moonraker facility where he is building a world class rocket that will be capable of carrying an atomic bomb to any city in Europe. Bond finds this comment suspicious but does not dwell on it at the time. After the game, Drax warns him that he had better spend his winnings quickly. Special Agent James Bond is brought in to put Drax in his place, and Bond humiliates him in a tense game of bridge. Millionaire Hugo Drax cheats at cards, the highest offense in polite English society.

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