[The Girl From UNCLE 01] - The Birds of a Feather Affair - Avallone Michael - Страница 1

THE MAKING OF AN

U.N.C.L.E. GIRL

"If you're going to kill a man with your bare hands, Miss Dancer, make certain you know where the beggar's feet are. It's a mistake you won't be able to make twice."

—Mr. Waverly, Headquarters, N. Y.

"Mais non, my dear April! Once you have made your thrust, recover immediatement. You will not want to be covered with the blood of your victim, n'est-ce pas?"

—Rene de Fresnay, Master Of The Sword, U.N.C.L.E. Academy

"It's in the form of a harmless jelly compound, April. Light it and it just flares harmlessly. But if you contain it in some tube or cylinder, it would destroy this whole building."

—Mark Slate, Laboratory, U.N.C.L.E.

"Nitrogen narcosis, Dancer. If you stay down too long or too deep, you'll get silly in the head. Maybe hand your oxygen filter to a shark or go dancing with an octopus. So make certain you never go down to great depths without another experienced diver. Got me?"

—Sam Wales, Scuba Expert, Tampa, Fla.

"No, you won't fall in love, my girl. You're in love already—with U.N.C.L.E."

—April Dancer, standing before a mirror

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the girl from

U.N.C.L.E.

The Birds-of-a-Feather Affair

by Michael Avallone

A SIGNET BOOK

Published by The New American Library

Copyright © 1966 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

All rights reserved

First Printing, September, 1966

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printed in the united states of america

This one is for my sister Grace,

who taught me my first steps

Table Of Operations

1. WHAT THE GIRL IS

2. SISTER AGENT

3. DEATH IN THREE LANGUAGES

4. OH, U.N.C.L.E., WHERE ART THOU?

5. THE GREAT ZORKI

6. DONT BLOW YOUR TOP

7. DANCER WITH COLD FEET

8. CLEAN SLATE

9. AWAY ALL GIRLS

10. AROUND-THE-CLOCK TERROR

11. MR. WAVERLY CALLS THE TUNE

12. I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO SPY

13. THE TWO MAD BOMBERS

14. MR. RIDDLE

15. SEND ONE MORE COFFIN

16. BYE, BYE, EGRET

For The Uninitiated

The letters U.N.C.L.E. stand for United Network Command of Law Enforcement. This is an organization of unusual quality and outstanding ability; its main function is to defeat the forces of global operations that seek to subjugate civilization as we know it beneath the hell and totalitarianism of tyranny.

To combat all the deadly isms, there is U.N.C.L.E. No other arm of counter-intelligence and espionage exists in which the range of counter—ism endeavor is so nonparochial and far-flung. The personnel of U.N.C.L.E. is intentionally multinational and multilingual. All races, colors and creeds combine their efforts to block any world power or underground organization that attempts to unbalance the scheme of things by force.

U.N.C.L.E. is subdivided into six sections:

SECTION I: Policy and Operations

SECTION II: Operations and Enforcement

SECTION III: Enforcement and Intelligence

SECTION IV: Intelligence and Communications

SECTION V: Communications and Security

SECTION VI: Security and Personnel

There is a profitable overlap of one Section into another. Section II is perhaps the most vital of all the departments in that it is there that the all-important job of execution of the work of the other five sections truly solidifies into reality.

For there is one country, one force, one power, whose entire raison d'etre is world domination. Out of this country has come an organization of supra-people who seek to rule the universe and are known by the code name of THRUSH.

U.N.C.L.E. is the only answer for THRUSH.