A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575115440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Young Jim diGriz has but one ambition in life - to become a master criminal, perhaps the greatest that his backwater homeworld, Bit O'Heaven, has ever seen. So that he can learn the ropes, he has to mix with the right people - or rather the wrong people. And for this kind of on-the-job training the best place to meet the worst villains is in prison. But even for a customer as slippery as Jim, getting behind bars isn't easy. So Jim does a bank job, very badly, with the avowed intention of getting himself nicked . . .

The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425061701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575081710
Category : DiGriz, James Bolivar (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Stainless Steel Rat saves the world: Someone was tampering with time, altering the past to eliminate the present, fading people out of existence into a timeless limbo. One of the victims was Angelina, the cherished wife of James de Griz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat.

The Stainless Steel Rat

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1649742177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Here’s the original short story that first introduced us to Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat! diGriz is charming, quick-witted, sophisticated, and a devious criminal mastermind. The Rat has just pulled off a successful and complex criminal operation, but the Special Corps is on his trail. Is this the end for the Stainless Steel Rat or just the beginning? Join Slippery Jim on this rollicking adventure.

The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575115424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Rat - is still recovering from his efforts to save his beloved Angelina from the notorious Interstellar Internal and External Revenue when he is called upon to perform the impossible. Saving the galaxy. But can he pull it off? The galaxy is being attacked by every kind of alien race - untold billions of tentacled, slimy, green, clawed mutations - and time is running out. Aided and abetted by his wife Angelina and his teenage sons, James and Bolivar, Jim infiltrates the nerve centre of the enemy council chambers. But he hasn't reckoned on the grey men and their commitment to a 'holy crusade' to destroy mankind - permanently!

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466822732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Bill, the Galactic Hero is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF. "Simply the funniest science fiction book ever written."--New York Times besteselling author Terry Pratchett At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The adventures of the stainless steel rat

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425038192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description

The Stainless Steel Rat Goes To Hell

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312860633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Outlaw Jim diGriz searches for his wife, abducted while returning from a trip to heaven, a search that takes him to hell where he meets man-eating devils. The setting is a planet from where you can visit heaven.

The Stainless Steel Rat Returns

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765364036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
After a ten-year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SF James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet of Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver's Travels. In this darkly satiric work, Harry Harrison bring his most famous character out of retirement for a grand tour of the galaxy. The Stainless Steel Rat rides again: a cocktail in his hand, a smile on his lips, and larceny in his heart, in search of adventure, gravitons, and a way to get rid of the pigs.

The Hammer and the Cross

Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466823305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 549

Book Description
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests. Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between....The Hammer and the Cross. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.