Peter Leslie (1922–2007)

The book begins with a poorly rhymed limerick, changes to prose, and then goes back to limericks. This continues throughout the book, the rhyming becoming more and more clumsy. I can’t imagine a child trying to follow the narration.

William imagined himself as a variety of creatures that would, hopefully, be better liked by humans, such as elephant, giraffe, shark, and snake. Each incarnation comes with its own set of problems. Unfortunately this goes on far too long. In the end he decides show more to be himself.

This theme has been done dozens of times in better ways. Perhaps the author was trying to do it in an original way with the limericks, but it just doesn’t work.

The illustrations are great, bright and funny but they can’t save the awkward writing. show less

Just like watching an episode, but with more detail. Glad to have some background history on Mr Peel, Emma's amazing wardrobe, and Steed's car! Set in the world of newspapers, this was a fun, quick read.

Missing uranium sends the two top U.N.C.L.E. agents off to war-torn areas of Africa where they face not only the daunting task of finding the material, but also the mistrust of groups battling for supremacy in the area.

This book covers a great deal of material about the genocide and wars that were taking place at the time . . . and still continue in many places. While this story had all the hallmarks of a good spy adventure, the story was grounded more in the real world than any of the show more material from the other books or the series itself. That made reading this one a bit odd.

The story was good and solid, too. Napoleon's female diversion (there always has to be one, you know) didn't take over the story, though she did provide a couple coincidences that were perhaps a bit too much.

Illya playing the role of a big game photographer came across very well, in fact. I would have liked to see him in this role for more of the story.

The plot had a couple good twists, so overall, this one stands up well enough to reading almost 50 years after it was written. show less

Yes, I like Man from UNCLE. I had ordered a few more off abebooks.com and never had a chance to read them. So I'm getting caught up now. This author had written a few other UNCLE books. But I have to say that this is not one of his better ones. The characters come off ... wrong. They just don't sound like Napolean and Illya.