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Slippery Jim Di Griz is a small-time crook with a big-time ego: one of the last few con-artists in a future where almost all crime has been eliminated, he survives by keeping one step ahead and never running the same con twice. He is proud of his achievements and views his chosen lifestyle in romantic terms, but the rat is an apt metaphor: at the start of Harry Harrison’s space opera, Jim’s current enterprise involves stealing food from the back of a warehouse. Even with a flair for planning original crimes, not everything goes to plan for the Rat. After falling into the hands of an interstellar police force Jim sets off on a trail across the galaxy in search of a beautiful psychopath who eludes or outsmarts him at every turn and of course steals his heart. An interesting sub-plot is Slippery Jim’s aversion to killing: for Jim this is the final taboo. Nevertheless he cannot outthink his lovely prey unless he can get inside her mind: on one occasion using a mind-altering drug to draw out his own murderous tendencies. The Stainless Steel Rat is a comedy and a satire but not a spoof: it’s comic sci-fi done right. It’s also classic space opera, and there’s always another FTL spaceship to board, steal or commandeer.
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The Stainless Steel Rat: 4th in the 'Stainless Steel Rat' series of books
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Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Eddie Jones (illustrator). 1973 Edition. © 1961: 4th in the 'Stainless Steel Rat' series of books. 2nd printing of 1973 edition (1st printing (1973) had no ISBN & different cover. Second-hand book-seller's stamps to inside front page:- Synopsis: Meet Slippery Jim diGriz, cosmic criminal, the smoothest, sneakiest con man in the known Universe. He can take any bank in the Galaxy, con a captain out of his ship, start a war or stop one - whichever pays the most. So when the law finally catches up with the Stainless Steel Rat there was only one thing to do - make him a cop. And turn him loose on a villainous lady who was building her own battleship:- Review(s): "Harrison bluffs and blusters his way through this preposterous tale, and somehow he has produced a highly readable novel" - Jon Hartridge, Oxford Mail:- (original cost £0.30). Seller Inventory # 22.029.00018
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Hardcover. Condition: Befriedigend. Seiten; 9780722144091.4 Gewicht in Gramm: 500. Seller Inventory # 891195