Moonraker characters

Appears from the start

A British Secret Service officer beginning a week of routine headquarters duty in London. He is an accomplished card player and expects his next dangerous overseas assignment to arrive only after the Moonraker missile test.

Appears from the start

The head of the British Secret Service and a senior member of Blades. Disturbed by another member's apparent cheating, he asks Bond to observe a card game before assigning him to a more consequential inquiry.

Appears from the start

The Service's chief of staff and one of Bond's closest professional colleagues. He briefs Bond on office business and helps define the initially ordinary shape of Bond's week.

Also known as Sir Hugo Drax

First appears in chapter 2

A wealthy industrialist acclaimed for funding and directing the Moonraker, a missile presented as an independent British deterrent. Blunt, energetic, and intensely competitive, he has become a national hero despite gaps in the story of his wartime past.

First appears in chapter 3

The chairman of Blades, the exclusive London club where M and Bond confront the problem of a member suspected of cheating at cards.

First appears in chapter 8

The senior police official supervising a covert investigation inside the Moonraker establishment. He cooperates with the Secret Service after a security officer at the project is killed.

First appears in chapter 9

Drax's secretary at the Moonraker site. Competent and self-contained, she is also working covertly for the police and monitoring unexplained activity among the project's predominantly German staff.

First appears in chapter 9

Drax's personnel chief at the missile site. Watchful and intrusive, he searches Gala Brand's room and treats Bond's arrival with suspicion.

First appears in chapter 9

A German technical specialist serving as one of Drax's senior assistants on the Moonraker project. He shares the closed loyalty of the inner team around Drax.