"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It?d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it?s your check, I?m going to have caviar, and what the English call ?cutlets?, and some pink champagne. I don?t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner?s going to live up to the occasion."

Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with?if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself ?