Leo G. Carroll

Mr. Webb, a THRUSH agent, and Margitta Kingsley, the wife of U.N.C.L.E. agent Robert Kingsley, plot to steal a docility gas from General Maximilian Harmon, who has kidnapped Professor David Garrow and his son Steve. Harmon and a group of scientists consider themselves the "Seven Intellectual Wonders of the World" and, with the gas and the troops, plan to take over control of the world and ensure peace.

Mr. Webb, a THRUSH agent, and Margitta Kingsley, the wife of U.N.C.L.E. agent Robert Kingsley, plot to steal a docility gas from General Maximilian Harmon, who has kidnapped Professor David Garrow and his son Steve. Harmon and a group of scientists consider themselves the "Seven Intellectual Wonders of the World" and, with the gas and the troops, plan to take over control of the world and ensure peace.

In London U.N.C.L.E. agent Brian Morton is planning on getting married, much to Waverly's disapproval. Solo and Illya help Morton on his current mission:stopping THRUSH agent Commander Kroler from stealing the plans for a new supersubmarine. Waverly tries to dissuade Laura Adams, Morton's fiancee, but to no avail. Morton and Laura are then kidnapped by Kroler, and Kroler threatens to kill Laura if Morton does not obtain the sub for him.

Oliver Barnes, a THRUSH agent, unsuccessfully tries to destroy U.N.C.L.E. HQ. Meanwhile, Napoleon and Illya are assigned to protect Dr. Febray and the new molecutronic gun that he has created for the Army. Barnes steals the gun and captures Napoleon, and the agent soon realizes that Barnes has another plan to destroy headquarters.

Solo and agent Andreas Petros are sent to the island of Ibos, where the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity has been spending huge amounts of money on some unknown project. Solo, posing as a visiting THRUSH official, meets Dr. Killman, the head of the project, and Marnya, who reveals that Killman is working on an earthquake device, as the real THRUSH emissary arrives.

Solo and Illya go to visit a Nazi war criminal in prison, Von Etske, but find that he has escaped with the aid of a special thought controlling device. His escape was observed by photographer Terry Cook. Von Erske is joining forces with Zorgon Gurnius, a fellow former Nazi, to reactivate their wartime triumvirate. Illya intercept Nexor, and finds that he is his exact double. He decides to impersonate Nexor to foil the plan.

Illya goes to U.N.C.L.E.'s secret island training academy, the Survival School, to help Jules Cutter find a THRUSH infiltrator who has assassinated a trainee. Suspicion focuses on three trainees Melisa Hargrove, John Saimes, and Harry Williams, and Illya must find out who is the real double agent.

In a Latin American country, Illya and Solo try to help the popular national leader, Angela protect her government from the Secret Three, a revolutionary group backed by THRUSH. Solo is captured by the Secret Three, but escapes after learning that Vinay, a friend of Angela's, is plotting against her. He tells her husband, General Abaca, but the general is actually the one plotting to overthrow his wife's government and have her killed.

Illya, recuperating in the hospital, is kidnapped by an old enemy, Viktor Karmak, to lure Solo into a trap. Solo follows a clue to a twelve block condemned area of Manhattan, and finds modern artist Sheila Van Tillson. Karmak appears and announces that Solo has until dawn to find Illya before a deadly gas kills him, while Karmak and his pet jaguar will try to hunt Solo down at the same time.

THRUSH agent Barnaby Partridge uses his island gambling casino to brainwash VIPs into committing suicide by playing on their secret fears. U.N.C.L.E. sends Taggart Coleman to the island to help Solo and Illya uncover the process, and he encounters an old love interest there, Monica. But Partridge takes Illya prisoner and subjects him to the process training him to kill Solo.

In Portugal, Solo is taken prisoner by Pharos Mandor, a THRUSH chief ready to defect if his arch rival, THRUSH assassin Stepan Valandros, does not kill him first. Solo meets Mandor's girlfriend, Cathy Welling. Mandor tells Solo U.N.C.L.E. must kill Valandros or he will not defect, but his real aim is to eliminate Valandros and promote himself up the THRUSH ranks.

Solo and Illya are assigned to investigate a mysterious ray from the sky that killed the inhabitants of an African village. They find expert safecracker and fugitive from justice Luther Sebastian, now a leader of a cult called the Third Way, and enlist his help in their plan to break into to the safe of Parviz Kharmusi and steal the thermal prism that powers that deadly ray. Solo runs into Annie Justin, who is looking for Sebastian, who framed her boyfriend. Azalea helps Solo escape from Annie, and takes him to Kharmusi. But Sebastian reveals he has stolen the prism for himself so he can put it into orbit and extort the world.

Solo and Illya are assigned to investigate a mysterious ray from the sky that killed the inhabitants of an African village. They find expert safecracker and fugitive from justice Luther Sebastian, now a leader of a cult called the Third Way, and enlist his help in their plan to break into to the safe of Parviz Kharmusi and steal the thermal prism that powers that deadly ray. Solo runs into Annie Justin, who is looking for Sebastian, who framed her boyfriend. Azalea helps Solo escape from Annie, and takes him to Kharmusi. But Sebastian reveals he has stolen the prism for himself so he can put it into orbit and extort the world.

Solo and Illya are asked by Adam Tenza to protect his millionaire industrialist father Mark Tenza from assassination by THRUSH, much to the resentment of the elder Tenza. When Tenza is killed by a bomb, Solo and Illya must find out where J Tenza's other son, James is, to protect him also. But Adam Tenza is actually planning to kill J, in order to hand his father's empire over to THRUSH.

Visiting Berlin headquarters in preparation for a high level U.N.C.L.E. conference, "Summit Five," Solo finds agent Heinz Newman mysteriously murdered. Illya goes to Berlin, as does Harry Beldon, one of Waverly's counterparts in Section 1. Beldon suspects that either Solo or Gerald Struthers committed the murder, while Illya suspects Beldon's secretary Helga Deniken, but Beldon himself turns out to be the traitor, and he plans to kill Waverly at the conference.