Vintage The Man From U.N.C.L.E The Radioactive Camel Affair Paperback Novel 1966 By Peter Leslie. Released by Souvenir Press / Four Square Books in 1966 and is based On The Exciting MGM-Arena TV Series of the time starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. Suddenly, all over the world, the precious and dangerous radioactive metal, Plutonium is being stolen. And when a famous scientist mysteriously disappears too, its time for UNCLE to send their tireless crime-busters, Solo and Kuryakin to find out where - and why. Their search takes them, to the Sudan in the company of a beautiful slave girl, where they discover that THRUSH is spearheading a campaign to take over the world - with nuclear weapons.