![]() ![]() Will this be his final show? Has Slippery Jim finally leapt for his last trapeze? Naaah. ![]() ![]() 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. Long Live the Rat When Kingsley Amis read the first Stainless Steel Rat novel he said, Well, Harry, you have written the first picaresque science fiction. 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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