After pressing his luck in The Tiara and turning his $5,000 payout into $20,000 in a game of roulette, Bond is driven off the road and is captured by the Mob and tortured, aboard Seraffimo's historic train in a recreated ghost town named 'Spectreville.' Bond is then beaten into unconsciousness. James Bond receives another $1,000 from the mob and is instructed to gamble four hands at The Tiara in Las Vegas – a casino owned by Seraffimo Spang. They find that they are both investigating the same people and work together to turn the tables on the gig and get Shy Smile disqualified. Bond learns from Felix Leiter (who has left the CIA due to injuries sustained in Live and Let Die and is working for Pinkerton's as a private detective) that the real Shy Smile is dead and that his identifying tattoo has been imprinted on another horse. He is given $1,000 and is instructed to bid on a horse named Shy Smile in Saratoga Springs to receive his full payoff. While undercover, Bond smuggles his diamonds into New York inside fake golf balls. The 'hire' is then instructed how to receive his payout, which is delivered via rigged gambling. She would then meet with 'the hire' and explain to that person how to smuggle the diamonds to New York City. In London, Tiffany would get an assignment from a contact known only as ABC. From there, the dentist would take the diamonds and rendezvous with a German pilot who would transport the diamonds to London via helicopter.

Kidd – two mysterious yet ruthless assassins.Īs Bond learns throughout the novel, the pipeline begins in Africa where a dentist would pay miners to smuggle diamonds in their mouth which the dentist would extract during a routine appointment. Bond discovers that the smuggling ring is being operated by a ruthless American gang called 'The Spangled Mob', which is run by the brothers Jack Spang and Seraffimo Spang.

Under the name of Peter Franks, a petty crook already known as a diamond smuggler, he meets a mysterious 'go-between' named Tiffany Case with whom he falls in love. Bond's job is to travel down the 'pipeline' as far as he can and find out who is behind it all. When Diamonds Are Forever begins, M instructs Bond to infiltrate a smuggling ring, which is running diamonds from African mines to the United States. The novel takes place just over two months from the end of Moonraker, which ended with James Bond taking a small vacation.

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