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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