A silly camp addition to the U.N.C.L.E. novel series that is U.N.C.L.E. in name only. You could easily switch out the character names and it wouldn’t make much difference. I don’t know who these two guys were in this book but they weren’t the Solo and Kuryakin I know.

It’s only saved by the last 30 pages when the culprits behind the nefarious goings on are revealed (although this feels a bit tacked on) and we get some U.N.C.L.E. style action at last. ( )

This is easily the best-written one of the series so far - good balance of characters, nice mystery, excellent atmosphere. Now I wanna watch the Vincent Price episode again. ( )

I admit that I hadn't expected a story about Vampires to be one of the best of the group!

A dead agent in Rumania, the body drained of blood? Waverly suspects a prank, but when confirmation arrives, he knows he must send his two best agents out to find out what is going on in the Transylvanian Alps.

Stoic, no nonsense Illya is considering silver crosses. Illya's Russian background is a problem, too, in a country which has no love for their northern oppressors. Oh yes, lots of problems here. Not to mention vampires, giant wolves. . . .

Napoleon is looking for solid, logical -- that really isn't a huge flying bat -- answers. Meeting up with the last of the real Dracula family is a bit of help. Maybe. The cameo appearance by Forrest J (no period) Ackerman is delightful, too.

I loved this line:

Napoleon usually left the more guttural Slavic tongues to Illya, who possessed a native ability to pronounce interminable strings of consonants as if vowels were an unnecessary bourgeois luxury.

Vampires, Cold War spies, THRUSH . . . this is a delightful, fun read. ( )