The stainless steel rat by Harry Harrison

"The stainless steel rat" by Harry Harrison is a science fiction novel first published in 1957. Set in the far future, it follows James Bolivar diGriz, a charming criminal mastermind known as "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat." He's a skilled con man, thief, and master of disguise who steals without remorse but refuses to kill. After pulling off an elaborate bank robbery, diGriz is outfoxed by the mysterious Special Corps—an organization of reformed criminals—and recruited to fight crime from the inside. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Harrison, Harry, 1925-2012
Illustrator Freas, Kelly, 1922-2005
Title The stainless steel rat
Original Publication United States: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1957.
Series Title Produced from Astounding Science Fiction August 1957
Series Title The Stainless Steel Rat
Note See also the longer work also titled "The stainless steel rat" and partially based on a version of this story: #70622.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat
Credits Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Science fiction
Subject Short stories
Subject Criminals -- Fiction
Subject Police -- Fiction
Subject DiGriz, James Bolivar (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 70034
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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