 Moonraker was the third James Bond novel written by  Ian Fleming (I) (qv). It was first published on 7 April 1955. A  number of suggested and working titles existed for this novel. These  included: The Moonraker, Mondays are Hell, The Moonraker Sense, The  Infernal Machine, The Moonraker Secret, The Inhuman Element, Wide of  the Mark, The Moonraker Plan, Hell is Here, Bond and The Moonraker,  The Moonraker Plot, and Too Hot to Handle, the latter being the  re