Diamonds Are Forever (novel)
Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The story centres on Bond’s investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way Bond meets and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany Case.
About Diamonds Are Forever (novel) in brief
Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The story centres on Bond’s investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way Bond meets and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany Case. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1956. In 1971 it was adapted into the seventh Bond film in the series and was the last Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as Bond. The novel was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper, first in an abridged, multi-part form and then as a comic strip. By mid 1954 Fleming had published two novels—Casino Royale and Live and Let Die —and had a third, Moonraker, being prepared for production. That year he read a story he had written about a diamond smuggling ring and decided to write a book about it. The Diamond Smugglers was published in 1957 and formed the basis for his non-fiction 1957 book The Diamondsmugglers. Bond is sent on an assignment by his superior, M. Acting on information received from Special Branch, M tasks Bond with infiltrating a smuggling ring transporting diamonds from mines in Sierra Leone to the United States.
Bond discovers that the ring is operated by the Spangled Mob, a ruthless American gang run by the brothers Jack and Seraffimo Spang. He follows the trail from London to New York, where he meets Tiffany Case, an attractive gang member who has developed an antipathy towards men after being gang-raped as a teenager. Bond rescues her and kills both gangsters; he makes it look like a murder-suicide. Bond changes the railway points and re-routes the train onto a dead-end, and shoots Spang before the resulting crash. With the collapse of the rest of the pipeline, Jack Spang is killed by killing his participants by killing its participants. After returning to London—Bond’s flat in Freetown —where Tiffany moves into Bond’s flat into Bond’s flat into New York City. Bond and Tiffany go via California to NewYork, where they board the RMS Queen Elizabeth to travel to London, a relationship developing between them as they go. After winning the money he is owed he disobeys his orders from Tree by continuing to gamble in the casino and wins heavily. Bond calls Tree to enquire further about the payment of his fee and is told to go to the Tiara Hotel in Las Vegas, the Tiara is owned by Seraffemo Spang and operates as the headquarters of the Spangling Mob. The diamonds go to Paris and then on to London after a rendezvous with a German helicopter.
You want to know more about Diamonds Are Forever (novel)?
This page is based on the article Diamonds Are Forever (novel) published in Wikipedia (as of Nov. 16, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
