The original short story introducing science fiction's most charming criminal antihero. In The Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison unveils "Slippery Jim" diGriz, master thief, con artist, and reluctant recruit to interstellar law enforcement
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The original short story introducing science fiction's most charming criminal antihero. In The Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison unveils "Slippery Jim" diGriz, master thief, con artist, and reluctant recruit to interstellar law enforcement
It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honour - he was only interested in two thin
It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing Battle
Jim believes he has pulled off a successful bank job, but is out-conned into working for the Special Corps, the elite law-enforcement and spy agency led by the former greatest crook in the Galaxy, Harold P. Inskipp, and composed mostly of ex-criminals lik
A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets
'Revelatory. Harry Harrison's novel about Earth on the edge of disaster is both bracing and cathartic ... impressively prescient' Guardian The planet's population has exploded and resources are stretched to breaking point. And, in a swelte
James Bolivar DiGriz, alias "Slippery Jim" is a fictional character and the protagonist of a series of comic science fiction novels written by Harry Harrison. It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship . .
James Bolivar 'Slippery Jim' diGriz, Special Corps agent, master conman and interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog with his lovely, vivacious wife Angelina on the luxury planet Moolaplenty when long-lost Cousin Elmo arrives. An
In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic
The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They
A stainless steel rat for a stainless steel world ... Meet Slippy Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar DiGritz. A man of many names and many talents ... all of which add up to make one of the greatest con men of all time. Charming, quick-wi