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• You Know Better by exavibus

  Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  17 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo
  • Illya Kuryakin
  • Napoleon Solo
  • Gaby Teller
  • POV Alternating
  • Present Tense
  • investigation-heavy
  • Murder Mystery
  • author has done way too much research into cold war espionage and is making it your problem now
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Hand Jobs

  Summary

  “It would have to be for a very good reason.”
  Solo sips his coffee without a flicker. “Presumably as good a reason as there is for Caldwell to be dead.”
  Illya turns at that to look at the American properly, sets the file aside on the other sofa cushion. “This doesn’t bother you even slightly.”
  The alertness is back in Solo’s eyes, the icy core of them. “We’re not in the right line of work to be bothered by one man’s death. Not when we’re trying to prevent a lot more.”

  Istanbul, July 1963. The death of a CIA officer threatens to ignite tensions, but the USSR disavows all knowledge.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  28,540

  Chapters:

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