A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born
In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery, and   counterespionage, one name towers above all the  rest - Slippery Jim  diGriz, the famous outlaw known  and feared as the Stainles Steel Rat!  Now the  uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most  canny  criminal are at last  revealed.This thrilling volume in the saga  of James diGriz  explores his humble beginnings as a petty criminal  on  the backward planet of Bit O'Heaven, and his  rapid rise to the most  wanted man on a dozen worlds.  And it contains the never-before-told  story of the  fabled archcriminal known as The Bishop, who  tutored  young Jim in the higher arts of crime and gave  him his legendary  nickname. A rousing, rolicking,  often touching tale,A Stainless  Steel  Rat Is Bornis a stirring portrait of a  man who learned to  laugh at the laws that bind  ordinary men.