Product Description

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 cops can do is make him one of their own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75874 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 185 pages

About the Author
Harry Harrison is one of the established greats of SF. The Stainless Steel Rat is his most popular creation - 'the Rat can hold his head up high amongst the most elevated superhero company: Bulldog Drummond, James Bond and Flash Gordon' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Harry Harrison lives in Brighton and Florida.

Customer Reviews

Slippery Jim DiGriz - His role in my downfall
This is it. This is the very first science-fiction book that was given to me to read at the tender age of 11. How was I to know that the dog-eared and tatty paperback leant to me would lead to an addiction spanning twenty years. There should have been a warning on it saying "Danger: Reading this may lead to becoming an anally retentive spotty teenager, in turn becoming a terminally sad train-spotting adult with no friends." Seriously though, I loved this book and all the resulting others. The adventures of super crook Slippery Jim DiGriz, Angelina his doting yet psychopathic wife and then James and Bolivar, their twin sons, have kept me entertained throughout my reading life. "The Stainless Steel Rat" was the first book in this series (there are prequels, but this WAS the first) and like any fine classic, it lays the foundations for all the others. It tells how super criminal DiGriz becomes the super agent for the Special Corps and why Angelina is so beautiful yet so criminally insane. I could tell you more, but that would give the whole book away. Just read and enjoy. Harry Harrison is certainly a diverse and talented author and has produced many fine books away from the "Rat" series as demonstrated in the superb "West of Eden" epic fantasies, the "Hammer and the Cross" books, plus many, many others. If I could, I would sue Mr Harrison for all my wasted teenage years spent alone in my room reading his well spun tales instead of wrestling with rampant females in the back seats of cars and fumbling with the intricacies of their sheer and scanty undergarments. I curse you Harrison.

Forget the cover, forget the blurb READ THE BOOK!
This book marks the beginning of a legend. Cigar chomping, heavy drinking, egoistical, larcenous male chauvinist Slippery Jim Di Griz is without question the best (and funniest) thing ever to happen to Sci Fi. This book, the first in the series, has everything from bank robbing through interstellar space chases to a love story (yes she's a deranged killing machine - but she had an unhappy childhood). And of course, it's laugh out loud funny throughout. You'll even find some (suitably left field) morality knocking around in there if the prospect of so much fun turns you off. So what are you waiting for? BUY THE BOOK!

The ultimate cool - Jim diGriz
More of a way to live your own life than paper back fiction anti-hero, Harry Harrison through his alter ego, Sliipery Jim diGriz, manages to liberally twist ethics beyond the norm.

It's done in such a charming and chaotic way (with Slippery Jim rarely in control of all events) that you really get the feeling that Jim is someone that could be you if only you; had the time, the brain and 1001 different futuristic gadgets and devices to cause mayhem with.

With his own distinct viewpoint of the "trickle down" concept of capitalism, you can't help siding with Jim whenever he decides to speed up the process. Protecting the weak and punishing evil tyrants along the way really gives you another reason to love this guy.

This is one of my favourite books and I firmly believe that everyone should read it.