"The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - The Calcutta Affair" by George S. Elrick,
Just finished reading "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - The Calcutta Affair" by George S. Elrick, published by Whitman as the 11th book released in their 2000 Big Little Book Series back in 1967.
Now a cautionary tale - while I collect Big Little Books, I rarely read any of them unless I can find a reading copy from the 2000 series because these are the last of the "Modern Era" Big Little Books published and released by Whitman.
When I read and published my review of the "Tom and Jerry Meet Mister Fingers" Big Little Book a few years back here on Facebook, Goodreads, and other social media sites, I was promptly banned from the Big Little Book Club of America and my membership was revoked. Keep in mind that any version of a Big Little Book I read will be in good-to-fair condition. I was never told the reason why my membership was revoked, so I can only assume it was because I dared to actually read a Big Little Book. Okay, so I now save $20 a year.
I found my reading copy of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - The Calcutta Affair" at Chamblins Book Mine - the best bookstore here in Florida and the entire Eastern Seaboard.
George S. Elrick wrote several of the original adaptations in Whitman's 2000 Big Little Book Series. I believe he also wrote the Star Trek Big Little Book story but alas for some reason while the original Star Trek novel in Whitman's TV Novel series of books geared towards older readers was written by Mack Reynolds - making it the first original Star Trek novel written, the Star Trek Big Little Book was never published, which is odd. Whitman may have never been able to work out the licensing agreement, and even though Whitman published Gold Key Comics and had the license to produce comics on Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, and the Time Tunnel - all Irwin Allen Productions - they never published any Big Little Books based on these shows, odd considering they had Irwin Allen by the short hairs since Whitman's own "Space Family Robinson" comic, which followed the adventures of a family with the surname of Robinson, who were "Lost In Space." Eventually both Whitman and Irwin Allen Productions did work out an agreement where "Space Family Robinson" was renamed "Lost In Space on Space Station One." Whew! And you think some of the titles of Japanese Magna are a mouthful!
Elrick successfully captured the flavor and the spirit of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" in "The Calcutta Affair" which reads like an episode adaptation. Elrick stays true to the source material as U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kiryakin seek out the reason why a fellow agent has disappeared in Cacutta, India, only to run afoul of another T.H.R.U.S.H. plot to rule the world by spreading a modified and deadly plague.
GREAT FUN!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Man-U-N-C-L-Ca...
Now a cautionary tale - while I collect Big Little Books, I rarely read any of them unless I can find a reading copy from the 2000 series because these are the last of the "Modern Era" Big Little Books published and released by Whitman.
When I read and published my review of the "Tom and Jerry Meet Mister Fingers" Big Little Book a few years back here on Facebook, Goodreads, and other social media sites, I was promptly banned from the Big Little Book Club of America and my membership was revoked. Keep in mind that any version of a Big Little Book I read will be in good-to-fair condition. I was never told the reason why my membership was revoked, so I can only assume it was because I dared to actually read a Big Little Book. Okay, so I now save $20 a year.
I found my reading copy of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - The Calcutta Affair" at Chamblins Book Mine - the best bookstore here in Florida and the entire Eastern Seaboard.
George S. Elrick wrote several of the original adaptations in Whitman's 2000 Big Little Book Series. I believe he also wrote the Star Trek Big Little Book story but alas for some reason while the original Star Trek novel in Whitman's TV Novel series of books geared towards older readers was written by Mack Reynolds - making it the first original Star Trek novel written, the Star Trek Big Little Book was never published, which is odd. Whitman may have never been able to work out the licensing agreement, and even though Whitman published Gold Key Comics and had the license to produce comics on Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, and the Time Tunnel - all Irwin Allen Productions - they never published any Big Little Books based on these shows, odd considering they had Irwin Allen by the short hairs since Whitman's own "Space Family Robinson" comic, which followed the adventures of a family with the surname of Robinson, who were "Lost In Space." Eventually both Whitman and Irwin Allen Productions did work out an agreement where "Space Family Robinson" was renamed "Lost In Space on Space Station One." Whew! And you think some of the titles of Japanese Magna are a mouthful!
Elrick successfully captured the flavor and the spirit of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" in "The Calcutta Affair" which reads like an episode adaptation. Elrick stays true to the source material as U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kiryakin seek out the reason why a fellow agent has disappeared in Cacutta, India, only to run afoul of another T.H.R.U.S.H. plot to rule the world by spreading a modified and deadly plague.
GREAT FUN!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Man-U-N-C-L-Ca...
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