It began when a man walked into a bar and ordered a beer that he was never to drink - for moments later he saw two other men enter, and he panicked and ran headlong out the door, across the street... and under the wheels of a truck.

When he was hit, hundreds of bank notes flew all over the street, a small fortune in currency. And all of it was counterfeit.

But when U.N.C.L.E. investigated the case they found much more than just counterfeiters at work. Instead, it was a THRUSH plan to destroy the economic and political foundations of Europe-and it looked as though it was going to succeed...