Another is a little matter of life and death. One is Liokukae itselfa dumping ground for the Leagues misfits, murderers, maniacs, and the incurably obnoxious. Threatened with a horrific death, Slippery Jim is allowed to cut a deal with the Galactic League: voyage to the planet Liokukae and bring back a missing artifactthe only known evidence of alien life-forms found in 32,000 years of galactic exploration.
DiGriz is in the process of robbing the new Mint on Paskonjak when the heist goes terribly wrong. Now the fabled futuristic criminal is back, in the long-awaited new adventure of intergalactic danger, intrigue, andafter a fashionrock stardom. Will this be his final show? Has Slippery Jim finally leapt for his last trapeze? Naaah.“Harry Harrisons bestselling Stainless Steel Rat series has earned rave reviews and a legion of fans, and has catapulted the Rat himself, an antisocial rule breaker in an overcivilized world, to fame, if not fortune.
Now, as he infiltrates the world of the galactic big top, he’s taking the role to extremes…Īnd drawing the attention of more dangerous ringmasters and strongmen than he ever expected. In a sense, The Stainless Steel Rat has always been a high wire performer. Robberies which, it turns out, always happen when the circus is nearby… Then they meet a billionaire who claims to be 40,000 years old who offers them millions of credits to investigate a string of unsolved interstellar bank robberies. Now, Slippery Jim and his beautiful wife Angelina find themselves becalmed on a painfully boring backwater planet, with nothing to do but practice their skills at computer crime. For novel upon novel, Jim DiGriz has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems. The galaxy’s greatest thief and con artist: the Stainless Steel Rat.
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