Set a few months after the 'The Dutch Blitz Affair,' Illya is identified and targeted by the KGB because of his past unresolved relationship with them. Napoleon is forced to deal with a suspicious US government, defecting ballet dancers, and THRUSH as the Cold War is dumped on UNCLE'S doorstep.

The Collection: Year One is a 150-page gen Man from UNCLE anthology of fiction by LRH Balzer. Covers & illustrations by: Warren Oddsson.It contains four short stories set in the final episodes of the first season, and following the events of The Defector From Leningrad Affair.

A story set back in time, but should be read after Collection: Year One. June 1961: A young Soviet agent, trapped in an existence he could no longer endure, whispers to Alexander Waverly, "Please help me. Let me come work for you." Two weeks later, he was abducted and 'murdered'. He was dead. He was free... But that was the easy part. America was in a Cold War. America was not ready for Illya Kuryakin... But then, neither was Illya Kuryakin ready for America.

In this novella adventure set just prior to the series in the summer of 1964, Napoleon Solo and his new partner, Paddy Dunn, must determine how much top secret U.N.C.L.E. information Solo's former partner, the abducted Russian agent Illya Kuryakin, has passed on to Thrush, and what they still want from him...