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Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming
Diamonds Are Forever
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"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call “cutlets”, and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s... show more
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call “cutlets”, and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion." Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780142002056 (0142002054)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
Series: James Bond (Original Series) (#4)
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Darth Pedant
Darth Pedant rated it
4.0 Diamonds are Forever
This fourth Bond adventure was so much fun that I never found myself making movie comparisons. In my mind, Bond was once again played by a young Hoagy Carmichael, and Kidd and Wint bore a simultaneously hilarious and disturbing resemblance to Penn and Teller. From the locations to the horse racing t...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
4.0 Diamonds Are Forever
"Slowly the sting slid home into its sheath and the nerves on the poison sac at its base relaxed. The scorpion had decided. Greed had won over fear." I won't copy all of the opening scene of Diamonds Are Forever, but this is one of the reasons why I keep reading this series - Fleming's ability to ...
Gurglings of a Putrid Stream
Gurglings of a Putrid Stream rated it
3.0 Notes on Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
* The fourth Bond book.* Third appearance of Leiter.* Bond starts the book by telling M that America is a civilized country, then spends the rest of it proving otherwise.* He's up against the Spangler Gang here, the Mob. Not really his cup of tea and he knows it. So did I. The Mob is beneath Bond.* ...
REALJimBob
REALJimBob rated it
Bond is investigating a diamond smuggling ring. Shades of the film of the same name, but they changed a number of things. As usual with Bond adaptations, the book outshines the film again.
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