Editing Moonraker (novel) (section)

==Style==
Benson analysed Fleming's writing style and identified what he described as the "Fleming Sweep": a stylistic technique that sweeps the reader from one chapter to another using 'hooks' at the end of each chapter to heighten tension and pull the reader into the next:{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=85}} Benson feels that the sweep in ''Moonraker'' was not as pronounced as Fleming's previous works, largely due to the lack of action sequences in the novel.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=98}}

According to the literary analyst LeRoy L. Panek, in his examination of 20th-century British spy novels, in ''Moonraker'' Fleming uses a technique closer to the detective story than to the thriller genre. This manifests itself in Fleming placing clues to the plot line throughout the story, and leaving Drax's unveiling of his plan until the later chapters.{{sfn|Panek|1981|pp=211–12}} Black sees that the pace of the novel is set by the launch of the rocket (there are four days between Bond's briefing by M and the launch){{sfn|Black|2005|p=19}} while Amis considers that the story to have a "rather hurried" ending.{{sfn|Amis|1966|pp=154–55}}

''Moonraker'' uses a literary device Fleming employs elsewhere, that of having a seemingly trivial incident between the main characters—the card game—that leads to the uncovering of a greater incident—the main plot involving the rocket.{{sfn|Chapman|2009|p=164}} Dibdin sees gambling as the common link, thus the card game acts as an "introduction to the ensuing encounter&nbsp;... for even higher stakes".{{sfn|Fleming|Dibdin|2006|p=vi}} Savoye sees this concept of competition between Bond and villain as a "notion of game and the eternal fight between Order and Disorder", common throughout the Bond stories.{{sfn|Savoye|2013|p=46}}