Diamonds Are Forever (Diamonds Are Forever)
First Edition: Glidrose, 1955
First Italian edition (the grand slam title of his death), Garzanti, 1965
Translation: Roselia Irti Rossi
" important market. bearer. Customs. Guards. Bond crushed the cigarette in the ashtray
Vallance's desk. How many times during the first year of service, he participated in an activity very similar to that: by Starsburgo for Germany, from Niegoreloye for Russia, over the Simplon Pass, across the Pyrenees? tension. Dry mouth. The nails hammered in the palms of the hands. And now, having passed all those exams, had to return yet again. "
After recently Moonraker Fleming decides his fourth adventure dedicated to Bond to take place abroad and will return as the core narrative illegal trafficking of diamonds. It 's a theme which is very dear to the writer. Fleming, in fact, had already been in contact with that area when working with the stockbrokers Rowe & Pitman, had visited the offices associated with the De Beers company to date the most important in world market for diamonds. After a trip to the U.S. research location of Fleming set to work in 1955 and delivered to the publisher his new work entitled Diamonds Are Forever famous advertising slogan of De Beers. returned to his work in the London office, Bond is summoned to a new mission from M. He must take the place of a certain Peter Franks, diamond smuggler, who was arrested MI6, and get on the trail of a complex smuggling of precious stones which, starting from Sierra Leone, ending the United States. M suspects that the leader of this sinister operation there may be the Italian-American Mafia family of Spang.
007 springs into action and got in touch with the English by the smugglers, the beautiful Tiffany Case, a blonde who moves easily between the folds of Mafia association.
left for the U.S. with some rough diamonds hidden inside of golf balls, contact Bond in New York Shady Tree, owner of House of diamonds, which indicated to return the stolen goods like Tiffany's. His reward, $ 5,000, is delivered in two tranches. The first, at once, a thousand in cash, the latter should instead be the result of an unexpected win in a horse race (makeup) at Saratoga.
exiting the House of Diamonds Bond encounters in his friend Felix Leiter. These, after the incident which occurred during the previous operation (narrated in Live and let die) has a hook for a hand. After leaving the CIA is now working for the Pinkerton detective agency and is also on the trail of Spang. The two decide to leave together at a time of Saratoga, a pleasant town near Boston, known for its horse racing.
There, Leiter gets in touch with the jockey of the horse for the victory and convinced him with a big money offer to simulate a disqualification that vanish in the smoke and the victory of the Bond family Spang. The reaction of the mafia is fierce and the jockey is disfigured with mud boiling in a sauna, two killers of the boss.
Bond makes contact with Shady Tree complaining about not getting the promised money and they told him to go to Las Vegas and stay at Tiara. At the luxurious casino
Bond points his thousand dollars a card table and with the help of Tiffany, who is a clever dealer, won the agreed 5000. But the scent of gambling picks the secret agent who decides groped their luck at roulette, winning over 20,000 bucks. Departed quickly from the casino with the help of his driver, the loyal Ernie Cure, he is chased by thugs and Spang, after a thrilling car chase, is taken prisoner. Bond is led to Spectreville, a western town in the heart of the desert, when Serrafimo Spang, head of the organization. This is aware of his dual identity and gets tortured. At night, the agent is released from Tiffany and runs on a tractor, using the train tracks on which it exposes its Spang Cannonball, a steam engine restored 1870. Again begins a deadly pursuit that ended with the death of Serrafimo Spang.
defeat our American band with Tiffany Bond embarks on Queen Elizabeth, towards London, but again has to deal with the two most feared killers of Jack Spang, the brother of Serrafimo. After being brutally eliminated 007 left for Sierra Leone to meet in a duel to the death your Jack Spang ...
Except for a brief introduction in Africa and a prologue in London, the entire story of Diamonds Are Forever takes place in the United States, a country that fascinates the writer for his many contradictions. From opulent luxury and a bit 'rude, the international jet set, Fleming is both fascinated and disgusted by the well-being flaunted by the Americans. In Diamonds Are Forever he highlights these issues, it still needs its cliches: its villains are always ugly, dirty and evil, in this case, even grotesque. Spang's family is described using racist and snobbish tones typical of the writer. Them in his mind are the classic Italian American mobsters and mangiaspaghetti, described in a grotesque, as in the case of Serrafimo Spang, gangster clown with a passion for Old West who goes around dressed like a cowboy, "Mr. Spang wore a western suit complete with polished boots blacks and a pair of long silver spurs. The black leather jacket and pants were adorned with silver trimmings. The big hands resting on the handles of ivory of two long-barreled guns that hung from the sleeves to the sides, the gleaming black belt of ammunition. "The Bond girl falls in the perfect stereotype of the previous female fleminghiane, Solitaire and Vesper type. And 'yet another woman, young, beautiful and fragile, lean man who needs a strong and confident. Also gives the lure of a male courtship that lasts for a matin l'espace.
Diamonds Are Forever is a novel of pure entertainment, without any psychological depth, everything kiss kiss bang bang , though tinged with the melancholy typical fleminghiana, a sense of inevitability of events that transpires in the book's concluding lines: " mocking smile to himself. all those faces of death and diamonds was too solemn for him. For Bond was nothing more than the end of a new adventure. A new adventure for which a sentence of Tiffany Case could serve as an epitaph. He could see his mouth ironic and passionate to say the words: not as easy as it seems "
