Sunday, June 17, 2018

The Dagger Affair, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #4

TV tie-in novels might not be one of the more respectable literary genres but then pulp fiction has never been respectable either and that’s never put me off. In fact TV tie-in novels are in some ways a modern version of the Victorian penny dreadfuls and dime novels and early 20th century pulp fiction - pure entertainment with no literary pretensions whatsoever.

I’ve recently found myself developing a mild interest in this ever so slightly disreputable field which ties in neatly with my enthusiasm for cult television of the 1960s and 1970s. I’m going to be posting occasional reviews of such books on my Cult TV Lounge blog, the first cab off the rank being one of the many Man from U.N.C.L.E. tie-in novels. Here’s the link to the fourth of this series of novels, David McDaniel's The Dagger Affair.

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1 comment:

  1. Benjamin ThomasJune 17, 2018 at 6:36 AM

    I'm right there with you. Last year I watched the entire Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series, as well as the Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and read a behind-the-scenes nonfiction account of the series. Now I'm reading the entire series of tie-in novels. I love to do this sort of "deep immersion" in 1960s-70s TV series.

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