After the success of the first three books, Diamonds Are Forever moves away from Russia as an enemy to a story centring on Bond’s attempt to infiltrate a diamond smuggling racket run by “The Spangled Mob”. Bond acts as a courier, smuggling a set of diamonds inside golf balls. This was a device that Fleming had picked up whilst working in navel intelligence during the Second World War when messages were sent to prisoners of war inside the balls.
The film was the last in the official series to star Sean Connery and has very little to do with the book. Rather than the mob as the enemy, Bond is up against Blofeld and the film is ultimately forgettable.
