 US sales, when the novel was released there a year later, were much slower.Following a comic strip adaptation in 1958–59 by John McLusky in the "Daily Express", the novel was adapted in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as Bond.Major plot elements from the novel were also incorporated into the Bond films "For Your Eyes Only" in 1981 and "Licence to Kill" in 1989.