Editing Moonraker (novel) (section)

===Plot inspirations===
[[File:Boodle's.JPG|thumb|alt=the facade of a three-story Georgian building in London. The building is in brown-red brick, with cream-coloured Portland stone edging, portico and columns|[[Boodle's]], a [[gentlemen's club]] in London, was the model for Blades; Fleming was a member of three clubs, including Boodle's.]]
The locations draw from Fleming's personal experiences. ''Moonraker'' is the only Bond novel that takes place solely in Britain,{{sfn|Black|2005|p=64}} which gave Fleming the chance to write about the England he cherished, such as the Kent countryside, including the [[White Cliffs of Dover]],{{sfn|Black|2005|p=23}} and London clubland.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=253}} Fleming owned a cottage in [[St Margaret's at Cliffe]], near Dover, and he went to great lengths to get the details of the area right, including lending his car to his stepson to time the journey from London to Deal for the car chase passage.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=257}} Fleming used his experiences of London clubs for the background of the Blades scenes. As a clubman, he enjoyed membership of [[Boodle's]], [[White's]] and the [[Portland Club (London)|Portland Club]], and a combination of Boodles and the Portland Club is thought to be the model for Blades;{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=180}} the author [[Michael Dibdin]] found the scene in the club to be "surely one of the finest things that Ian Fleming ever did".{{sfn|Fleming|Dibdin|2006|p=vi}}

The early chapters of the novel centre on Bond's private life, with Fleming using his own lifestyle as a basis for Bond's. Fleming used further aspects of his private life, such as his friends, as he had done in his previous novels: Hugo Drax was named after his brother-in-law [[Hugo Charteris]]{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=254}} and a navy acquaintance Admiral Sir [[Reginald Drax|Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax]],{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=88}} while Fleming's friend Duff Sutherland (described as "a scruffy looking chap") was one of the bridge players at Blades.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}} The name of the Scotland Yard superintendent, Ronnie Vallance, was made up from those of [[Ronald Howe]], the actual assistant commissioner at the Yard, and of Vallance Lodge & Co., Fleming's accountants.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}} Other elements of the plot came from Fleming's knowledge of wartime operations carried out by [[T-Force]], a secret British Army unit formed to continue the work of the Fleming-established [[30 Assault Unit]].{{sfn|Longden|2009|p=312}}