Publisher's Synopsis
This is a wonderful story about 'Slippery' Jim DiGriz, later to be known as The Stainless Steel Rat. We first see DiGriz and his two companions in this book when he beats a Casino Planet to win money so they can purchase weaponry to defend themselves against their home planet, the planet Pyrrus. This story is a wonderful short story. In this gripping story from twentieth-century science fiction master Harry Harrison, a gigantic battleship has slipped off the proverbial radar. Can wily protagonist Jim diGriz and his intrepid half-humanoid, half-robot crew of comrades retrieve it before it falls into the wrong hands and interstellar war breaks out? Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! the basis for the film Soylent Green. Harrison is a writer of fairly liberal world view with his works often hinging around the contrast between the thinking man and the man of force, although the "Thinking Man" often needs ultimately to employ force himself.
