"Baja?! I don't have anything in Baja!" So said Willard Whyte (a Howard Hughes billionaire) in Diamonds Are Forever. However, neither he nor Ernst Blofeld appear in the book version. They just were in the movie.
There's no diamond laser satellite, moon rover or Burt Saxbe in the book. But in the Ian Fleming book appear Mr. Wint, Mr. Kidd, Tiffany Case, Shady Tree and mobsters who are involved in a diamond-smuggling pipeline from Africa to the United States. At least Las Vegas is in the book (as it is in the movie).
James Bond's assignment is to infiltrate this pipeline. The novel is a straight-out thriller involving mobsters and the Spangler brothers who are running the smuggling operation.
To me, the book started out slowly but the action picks up midway through.
The next two books in order of publication are "From Russia With Love" and "Doctor No." As I've already read them, I am going to read the next book after them: "Goldfinger."
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