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Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus - Harry Harrison

all is not what it seems and their employer has secrets that may also put their lives in jeopardy. Very fast paced book that fair flies along and never slackens right up until the surprising ending. Well written and well thought out plots and twists. All ofthe characters are well fleshed out and familiar, (if you have read ohters in the series). You will enjoy this book but you will not read it again, read another one of the series! Recommended. Written by Harry ...

Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus - Harry Harrison

The Stainless Steel Rat joins the Circus. Author - Harry Harrison. The Hero or Anti Hero of the series of stainless steel rat books is Jim DiGriz. He was born or rather created in 1961 and has appeared on book shelves ever since. The richest man in the galaxy, Imperitrix Von Kaiser Czarski, Hires Jim and his wife Angelina to investigate and if possible to catch the criminals behind several bank robberies. Jim, his wife and their son, James, find a common link to each robbery in that every time a bank has been robbed a Circus has been near by. Jim cajoles a retired magician, The Great Grissini to teach him some tricks and then joins the circus pretending to be a ...

The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison

In the 20th century, in the midst of concrete and wood empires, there still lived rats in the society - the people who give jobs to thousands of other people: law enforcements, insurance companies, newswriters, etc. I'm talking about crooks, villains and criminal masterminds, of course, who don't do the jobs only for money and respect, but asa lifestyle, stopping at nothing. But what could a rat do in the far future when (according to other books of the series) the Earth is no more and buildings are made of carbonfiber, steel and glass... That society is in need of stainless steel rats - like Slippery Jim Bolivar diGriz. He is probably on of the biggest criminal masterminds in a ...