Description:
The Calcutta Affair
(1967), George S. Elrick's entry in the assignments of the Man From
U.N.C.L.E., finds Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin in the teeming city
of Calcutta hunting the evil T.H.R.U.S.H. agents behind the death by
bubonic plague of Gordon Thorpe-Smith and the disappearance of Paddy
O'Donnell, both fellow agents. O'Donnell had been sent to investigate
strange plague death and vanished without a trace within hours of his
arrival in India. Before it's all over, Solo and Kuryakin will encounter
mice carrying bubonic plague; T.H.R.U.S.H. agents with the usual guns,
knives, hypos, & radio-transmitting teeth plus a nuclear sub filled
with enough plague to wipe out half the world; and Solo will have a
brush with the disease that took out O'Donnell. But, hey, these are the
men from U.N.C.L.E.--so it's no spoiler to tell you that they turn the
tables on the bad guys and fly off into the sunset to fight evil another
day.