The Finger in the Sky Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. No. 23)

By Peter Leslie

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000RDJGU0
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Ace
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Solo & Kuryakin and the Airplane-Crashing Laser

“The Finger in the Sky Affair,” the 23rd and final U.N.C.L.E. paperback, is a nice finale to the paperback series. It doesn’t provide any closure to the characters—but that wouldn’t have been expected at the time. Only recently did TV series—and the books based on them—feel any real need to wrap things up neatly in some big finish. Most TV shows from the ‘60s just stopped after their last episode, and the final episode wasn't much different from the episodes that went before. What “The Finger in the Sky Affair” gave you at the time it was published was a last chance to see Napolean Solo and Illy Kuryakin in action. In this case against THRUSH agents causing planes from a particular airline to crash—usually while landing at an airport in Nice, France. Peter Leslie, the author of this entry in the U.N.C.L.E series, also gives you some interesting background about the operations of airplanes and airlines circa 1966, and a lot of local color around Nice. And he gives Illya a chance to impress us all by explaining how lasers work. He also contributes one of the most violent U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks—although the violence is almost always at the hands of the THRUSH agents. Solo and Kuryakin are still using sleep darts in their guns rather than actual bullets. And, while Leslie writes appreciatively of the many beautiful women in the book, any potential conquests only occur after the last page. An entertaining read for U.N.C.L.E. fans.