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The book was the basis of [[Film/DiamondsAreForever the seventh]] ''Film/JamesBond'' film.
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The book was the basis of [[Film/DiamondsAreForever the seventh]] ''Film/JamesBond'' film.
film. It also got a RadioDrama adaptation on BBC Radio 4 in 2015, with Creator/TobyStephens as Bond.
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* DisneyDeath: Ernie Cureo is apparently killed in a shootout; at the end of the story it's mentioned that he is alive but hospitalized.
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* DoubleEntendre: Fleming follows a description of the carnal intentions of the corrupt dentist with the thought that five thousand miles away, the diamond smuggling pipeline "would finally gush out on to soft bosoms".
** That ends the first chapter and first words of the second are "Don't push it in. Screw it in." as M tells Bond how to use a jeweller's glass.
** That ends the first chapter and first words of the second are "Don't push it in. Screw it in." as M tells Bond how to use a jeweller's glass.
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* DoubleEntendre: Fleming follows a description of the carnal intentions of the corrupt dentist with the thought that five thousand miles away, the diamond smuggling pipeline "would finally gush out on to soft bosoms".
**bosoms". That ends the first chapter -- and the first words of the second are "Don't push it in. Screw it in." as M tells Bond how to use a jeweller's glass.
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* {{Oireland}}: On its way to the U.S., Bond's plane has a brief layover in Ireland. Fleming proceeds to cram just about ''every single stereotype'' an Englishman can think of into the airport's souvenir shop.
** Although given that the travelogue portion of the book is based on Fleming's own travels and that this is a souvenir shop in the 1950s, probably TruthInTelevision.
** Although given that the travelogue portion of the book is based on Fleming's own travels and that this is a souvenir shop in the 1950s, probably TruthInTelevision.
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* {{Oireland}}: On its way to the U.S., Bond's plane has a brief layover in Ireland. Fleming proceeds to cram just about ''every single stereotype'' an Englishman can think of into the airport's souvenir shop.
** Although givenshop. Given that the travelogue portion of the book is based on Fleming's own travels and that this is a souvenir shop in the 1950s, probably TruthInTelevision.
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* ShortLivedAerialEscape: At the end of the novel, Bond flies to Freetown in Sierra Leone, and then to the next diamond rendezvous. With the collapse of the rest of the pipeline, Jack Spang (who turns out to be ABC) shuts down his diamond-smuggling pipeline by killing its participants. Spang himself is killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter. [[NoKillLikeOverkill With a Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft autocannon.]]
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* ShortLivedAerialEscape: At the end of the novel, Bond flies to Freetown in Sierra Leone, and then to the next diamond rendezvous. With the collapse of the rest of the pipeline, Jack [[spoiler:Jack Spang (who turns out to be ABC) ABC)]] shuts down his diamond-smuggling pipeline by killing its participants. Spang himself is killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter. [[NoKillLikeOverkill With a Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft autocannon.]]
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* ContinuityNod: When Bond is out cold after getting the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown crap kicked out of him]], he has a flashback dream to his diving mission in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** When Bond is out cold after getting the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown crap kicked out of him]], he has a flashback dream to his diving mission in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
** When Bond is out cold after getting the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown crap kicked out of him]], he has a flashback dream to his diving mission in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* AntiAir: Bond uses a Bofors anti-aircraft gun to shoot down Jack Spang's helicopter.
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* AntiAir: Bond uses a Bofors anti-aircraft gun to shoot down Jack [[spoiler:Jack Spang's helicopter.helicopter]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While Fleming was never the most socially-conscious writer, even for TheFifties, this was probably the intended effect with how brutally Wint and Kidd treat the Black attendant at the Saratoga mud-baths. It's taken UpToEleven with the Spangs' inside man at the diamond mines, an Afrikaner whose "hatred for all black things" extends even to ''insects''.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While Fleming was never the most socially-conscious writer, even for TheFifties, this was probably the intended effect with how brutally Wint and Kidd treat the Black attendant at the Saratoga mud-baths. It's taken UpToEleven up to eleven with the Spangs' inside man at the diamond mines, an Afrikaner whose "hatred for all black things" extends even to ''insects''.
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* MeaningfulName: Tiffany's father was so disgusted at having a daughter that he gave his wife $1,000 and a makeup compact from Tiffany's and walked out on both of them. Tiffany was named after the item.
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* RapeAsBackstory: Tiffany Case was the daughter of [[MissKitty a madame]] who stopped paying protection money to the mob; the mob chased out the hookers and gang-raped Tiffany at a young age. It has left her distrustful of men, but she [[DefrostingIceQueen warms up]] to Bond.
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* RapeAsBackstory: Tiffany Case was the daughter of [[MissKitty a madame]] madame who stopped paying protection money to the mob; mob, the mob chased out the hookers and gang-raped gang raped Tiffany at a young age. It has left her distrustful of men, but she [[DefrostingIceQueen warms up]] up to Bond.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Wint hates flying so much that he has to be paid a special bonus by his employers if he has to do so and carries a card reading "My Blood Group is "F"".
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* {{Tuckerization}}:
** Ernie Cureo, Bond's taxi-driving ally in Las Vegas, was named after Fleming's traveling companion Ernest Cuneo.
** "Boofy" Kidd was named after one of Fleming's close friends—and a relative of his wife—Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran, known to his friends as "Boofy".
** Ernie Cureo, Bond's taxi-driving ally in Las Vegas, was named after Fleming's traveling companion Ernest Cuneo.
** "Boofy" Kidd was named after one of Fleming's close friends—and a relative of his wife—Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran, known to his friends as "Boofy".
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* ShownTheirWork: Fleming met with Captain James Hamilton of the LAPD, who provided information on the Mafia organisation in the US and Jack Entratter, owner of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, who provided the background to the security systems and methods of cheating depicted in the novel.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Fleming was interested in the diamond trade after reading an article in ''The Sunday Times'' about diamond smuggling from Sierra Leone.
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Those Two Bad Guys is now a Disambiguation page. Wint and Kidd are examples are the soon-to-be-launched Bantering Baddie Buddies.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The FatAndSkinny mob enforcer duo Wint and Kidd. They always work together, and they are probably a couple as well.
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* ContinuityNod: When Bond is out cold after getting the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown crap kicked out of him]], he has flashback dream to his diving mission in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie''.
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* CoolCar: Leiter owns a black Studillac, a Studebaker Starline coupe with a Cadillac V8 engine to turn it into a powerful roadster.
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* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The key reason Bond is able to recognize [[spoiler:Wint and Kidd, and rescue Tiffany from them]] above the ''Queen Elizabeth'' is because the former participated in the ship's auction pool (an event where the passengers gamble on how far the ship will travel in the next 24 hours), drawing attention to himself. The "cheating" part comes in because [[spoiler:Wint and Kidd planned to kill Tiffany and dump her overboard, and the ensuing man-overboard alarm was sure to guarantee a low mileage]].
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* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The key reason Bond is able to recognize [[spoiler:Wint and Kidd, and rescue Tiffany from them]] above on the ''Queen Elizabeth'' is because the former participated in the ship's auction pool (an event where the passengers gamble on how far the ship will travel in the next 24 hours), drawing attention to himself. The "cheating" part comes in because [[spoiler:Wint and Kidd planned to kill Tiffany and dump her overboard, and the ensuing man-overboard alarm was sure to guarantee a low mileage]].
