Vintage The Man From U.N.C.L.E Paperback Novel 1966 By Michael Avallone. Released by Souvenir Press / Four Square Books in 1966 and is based On The Exciting MGM-Arena TV Series of the time starring Robert Vaughn. In Utangaville, Africa it took two days - InSpayerwood, Scotland it happened overnight.... In each town, the people suddenly turned into mindless, babbling creatures who thrashed about wildly, uttering weird, half human cries -and died. Doctors and scientists were baffled as to the cause. A sudden plague, some mysterious virus? But to the members of the United Network Command For Law and Enforcement, there could be only one answer: THRUSH had a deadly new weapon for world conquest.