The Thousand Coffin Affair
by Michael Avallone
1965 Ace Books
A nominal plot involving chemical warfare, this is mainly a series of capture/escape set pieces with very little linking them. Lively enough, but got very repetitive as Avallone ran low on ideas pretty quickly. Only so many times you can read Solo taking flight and having a rough landing, and two of his escapes consist of him being clever enough to karate someone.
A bit more adult than the series: Solo gets laid a couple times, some nude bondage, rotting corpses, etc. Nothing crazy for 1965, but more than the TV show.
The rest of the series is written by a variety of authors. I want to like UNCLE, it's in my DNA, but the show never really clicked with me the way James Bond or even Get Smart did.
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