Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the 1955 James Bond novel Moonraker.

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After the Ardennes offensive he stayed behind Allied lines when their forces crossed the Rhine and started operating in the Low Countries with his commando group.

He was then rescued by the British and nursed back to health, faking amnesia and claiming to be a "missing soldier" by the name of Hugo Drax.

After receiving his medical discharge from the British Army, he killed a Jewish businessman in London, robbed him of £15,000, and escaped to Tangier to start his company.

Drax uses his knowledge of the impending disaster to play the currency exchange market, planning to make a huge profit from his own terrorist act.

Bond, with the help of Special Branch agent Gala Brand, sabotages Drax's missile launch and targets the North Sea again.

Drax and his men board a Soviet submarine to escape, but travel unwittingly through the new target area and are killed when the missile strikes them.

Using chemical weapons created by Drax's scientists—derived from the toxin of a rare South American plant, the Black Orchid—at an installation in Italy, he would wipe out the remainder of humanity.

In his novelization of the movie, screenwriter Christopher Wood describes Drax as red-haired and with a face scarred and botched by poor plastic surgery (from a time "before he could afford the best in the world"), much as originally envisioned by Fleming.