M asks James Bond to investigate the multi-millionaire businessman Sir Hugo Drax, who is winning a lot of money playing bridge at M\'s favorite club, Blades. M suspects Drax of cheating, but although claiming indifference, he is concerned why a multi-millionaire and national hero, such as Sir Hugo, would cheat at a card game. Bond confirms Drax\'s deception and manages to \"cheat the cheater\" aided by a cocktail of powdered Benzedrine mixed with non-vintage champagne and a deck of stacked cards winning 15,000 and infuriating the out-smarted Drax.

Drax is the product of a mysterious background, unknown even to himself (presumably). As a supposed British soldier in WWII, he was badly injured, and stricken with amnesia, in the explosion of a bomb planted by a German saboteur at his field headquarters. After extensive rehabilitation in an army hospital, however, he would eventually return home to become a major aerospace industrialist.

Now, Drax and his firm are building the \"Moo ...more