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USING HIS FORMIDABLE SKILLS OF DECEPTION, JAMES BOND WORKS TO TAKE DOWN AN AMERICAN GANG

The Spangled Mob are no ordinary American gangsters.

They prey on the addictions of the wealthy and treat the poor as collateral. Their ruthless desire for power and fierce brotherly loyalty make them deadly and invincible.

Now James Bond must go deep undercover in his urgent new assignment: to destroy their millionaire masterminds, Jack and Seraffimo Spang.

But the Spangs’ cruel influence is everywhere, from dusty African diamond mines to the frenzied gambling dens of Las Vegas. Can Bond find his men before his cover is blown?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B398JHYY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (May 23, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 23, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1858 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1906772789
Reviewer: George V. Neville-Neil
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beats the movie to death a stick
Review: The film was a low point in the series, but the book is quite good. A few of the usual stereotypes common to Fleming and his ilk at mid century but a very enjoyable read. It’s interesting to me that the women in the books are so much better characters than those in the movies. Given the times I’d expect the reverse. A good run and it seems Fleming loved trains a lot so a few extra points from me for that as well.

Reviewer: Bill Williams
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Bond at his exciting best...
Review: I have to admit, going into "Diamonds are Forever," the fourth James Bond novel from the pen of creator Ian Fleming, I had my prejudices. Up to this point everything I had known about the novel had been influenced by the 1971 film version with Sean Connery and Jill St. John. For that matter, everything about Fleming's novels were influenced by the film releases. So, going into the original novel (as with the first three books), what Fleming wrote and what was adapted for the screen are two vastly different animals.For example, the novel is not the campy schlock that was puton screen. It's straightforward drama and action throughout. It's as if the screenwriters took the basic premise of Bond versus diamond smugglers, threw in the tasty dish that is Tiffany Case, added a quick reference to the mud baths, and made the henchmen Wint and Kidd' s gay relationship (only briefly hinted at) more flamboyant in the final film, and cooked up everything else (even the whole Blofeld angle). Granted, this was at a time in the Bond film franchise where producers Broccoli and Saltzman began to stray more from Ian Fleming's original intent and make the James Bond character even more flamboyant on the screen than in the pages of the books.Having said that, I was really surprised by the pacing of the novel, at this point Fleming's longest. It is a more carefully constructed yarn filled with accurate descriptions of locale and realistic moments of gambling and horse racing and action. And there's the sad yet very real back story that is Tiffany Case's past, which makes her an attractive foil for our hero. He does more than just physically rescue her, he saves her inside and out. And Bond's motives for saving his friends and defeating the bad guys are to the point and not the markings of a flashy secret agent with quick jokes and gadgets. It's a simpler yet more significant character who relies on his thinking and attention to duty.I can understand why some people are not as big a fan of "Diamonds are Forever" (the novel) if they had the movie on the brain. Fortunately, I have not seen the film version all the way through, only a few clips here and there plus the trailer, so my reading the novel is not as influenced by the film version as, say, "Casino Royale" (which they got right in 2006). And it's as different as the book and film versions of Fleming's third installment, "Moonraker".Still, it makes for good solid storytelling through and through from Bond's creator. And as opposed to the later cycles from John Gardner and Raymond Benson, I'm going through the Fleming originals as he meant them to be read.

Reviewer: Anonymous
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent adventure with a little period-accurate racism
Review: Fleming crafts an exciting, thrilling ride through the world of 1950s American gangsters. Unfortunate and jarring that there are some racist remarks/jokes from the main character, but probably reflects commonly held attitudes of the time it was written. It’s pretty wild how differently this reads now.

Reviewer: Hendricks Book Reviews
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fleming still manages to create an exciting narrative worthy of the Bond character...
Review: Book Review – Diamonds Are Forever – Ian Fleming"Diamonds Are Forever," the fourth 007 novel by legendary author Ian Fleming sees James Bond, 007 investigating a diamond smuggling operation in Africa that involves both the United Kingdom and the United States. Working undercover, Bond learns that some gangsters are behind the illicit gems, and Bond becomes enamored with a woman who works for them but eventually works with him. The adventurous story eventually takes Bond to Las Vegas, with plenty of gambling, drinking, and action along the way. The book, written in 1956 has very little in common with the 1971 film. Although there are some slight similarities, the film was more up to date for its time period – the 1970s. In my opinion, both the book and the movie are the weakest of the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as 007, but Ian Fleming still manages to create an exciting narrative worthy of the super spy character. Usually, the books are better than the films but, in this case, neither really tickled my fancy nor cause me to be too disappointed. I was still entertained and will continue reading the Bond books that my favorite Bond character, Sean Connery starred in.

Reviewer: JSchenck
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fleming never disappoints
Review: I enjoyed this a lot, but the movie version kept getting n the way. The book is much more complicated than the movie, and I didn't miss the millionaire reclusive the movie threw in. This was a clean, sharp adventure.

Reviewer: Derek Merman
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: it reads plenty good
Review: I picked up the series (having grown up with the movies) when I heard in a podcast it was JFK’s favorite. D.A.F. Is an easy read and good story. I’d probably rank moonraker above it so far, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t wait to start the next.

Reviewer: David I. Williams
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Bond is Forever
Review: Every year millions of pounds worth of diamonds are being smuggled out of the African diamond mines. M has decided that James Bond must stop this leak. To that end James goes undercover as a diamond smuggler to America. This adventure will lead Bond across the United States, back to England, and finally to Africa. Along the way he will team up again with his old friend Felix Leiter. Together they will track the criminals to a racing track in New England, across the US to Las Vegas and into the desert. Bond will have to escape from several deadly traps in order to survive this mission. When it is all over he will have a new respect for the Mafia. It is a fun spy caper full of gangsters, smuggles, and an alluring woman. What more could you ask for in a James Bond novel?

Reviewer: Kerry. S. W
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Brilliant

Reviewer: Karl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: James bond - as everybody knows him from movies and books in a secret mission. Good story with action from beginning to the end of the book.

Reviewer: Mark Ellis Gough
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I've read this book a couple of times and it never gets old. The marvellously tense encounter between Bond and his two villans aboard the QE2 is one of my favourite scenes. Fleming's writing is eloquent, concise, and engrossing. A fine novel from the golden age of espionage.

Reviewer: Jacques ARNOL-STEPHAN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: One James Bond where the villain are mobsters, not spies. But still a James Bond. Thrill, love, death. What would we need more!

Reviewer: Ian Thumwood
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Having worked my way through more than half of the Bond novels, you start to appreciate the Fleming could be an unpredictable writer and the interest for me often lies in the way these novels differ from the films. As a rule, the shorter novels illustrate Fleming at his most creative whereas it seems in the longer books that sometimes he is tired of his creation so that a book like "Dr. No" may include elements of hokum at the end or at least allow the tension to dissipate as the novels build to a climax. Whilst I would suggest that "FRWL" and "OHMSS" are probably the best of these longer books, "Diamonds are forever" is not far behind. Part of the success of this novel stems from Fleming reining in his excesses and this book is better for Bond being up against American organised crime so that the more incredible elements that can spoil some of Fleming's writing are absent. I would also have to add that the fact that the last third of this novel is effectively a chase sequence does add to the excitement, especially as the heroine is not quite so two dimensional as in other 007 outings. In fact, Tiffany Case is probably one of his best crafted female characters. I'm not convinced by Victor's review that the villains lack menace and it is more a case that Fleming shelved the more absurd elements for a more credible picture of how well ingrained organised crime was in to many aspects of American society. The novel is assisted by the return of Felix Leiter whose life-threatening injuries incurred in "Live in let die" manifest themselves in him being far more gung-ho and reckless. The whole escapade is bookended by incidents in Africa and I felt this juxtaposed itself nicely insofar that the setting of the sun on the British Empire is contrasted by the more cynical world of gambling, extortion, race fixing and murder that was the rotten under-belly of American life. Granted that there are a couple of pages of wholly unacceptable racism during the course of one particular menacing incident that should have been edited out without the story losing anything, this is otherwise one of the very best of the 007 adventures. I can recall trying to read this book for the first time when I was about 13 and being disappointed that is was nothing like the film. Returning to it over thirty years later it is clear that film was not a patch on Fleming's original vision.