Like the others, physically intimidating, and mishapenly ugly. And like the other two, Drax is also physically big, with exceptionally broad shoulders, big hands, a prognathous jaw with protruding teeth, and one eye larger than the other as a result of imperfect plastic surgery after the wartime bomb. So, all three are baddies with made-up names. Amnesiac, he responded to the name Hugo Drax when shown it, and has officially used that name since. More interestingly, each one traces their origins to the Second World War: Le Chiffre was an unnamed inmate of Dachau Displaced Persons camp at the end of the war Mr Big served with US Special Forces during the war Drax was one among many men injured in the blowing-up of an Allied hospital by German commandos in 1945. Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, Mr Big in Live and Let Die, now Hugo Drax – in each novel Bond is up against an evil criminal mastermind. The tight time-frame and the solely English locations (London, the Drax rocket firing complex on the Kent coast, and the roads between) make this feel like a very domestic adventure. Moonraker is divided into 25 chapters, themselves grouped into three fast-moving parts:
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