Name: The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

Author: Harry Harrison
Year: 1994
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Science fiction, Humor

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9780553569391
0553569392
Slippery Jim diGriz is in the process of robbing the new Mint on Paskonjak when the heist goes terribly wrong. Threatened with a horrific death, Slippery Jim is allowed to cut a deal with the Galactic League: voyage to the planet Liokukae and bring back a missing artifact - the only known evidence of alien life-forms found in 32,000 years of galactic exploration. For diGriz there are a few catches. One is Liokukae itself - a dumping ground for the League's misfits, murderers, maniacs, and the incurably obnoxious. Another is a little matter of life and death. To ensure the utterly untrustworthy diGriz's cooperation, the League has given him a slow-acting poison, allowing him thirty days in which to succeed . . . or die. Now the Stainless Steel Rat is on his way to a world that is hurtling backward down the evolutionary scale - a land of fanatic, goat-herding Fundamentaloids, murderous Machmen, and a rusty guru named Iron John. DiGriz has developed an almost perfect cover: a four-member rock band that has a way of giving its audiences what they want to hear. But while the days tick away and diGriz's life expectancy lowers, the mission evolves from finding an artifact to liberating a planet . . . which is a tune the Stainless Steel Rat most certainly knows how to sing.
This book is part of the "Stainless Steel Rat" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Stainless Steel Rat Returns"
First published in 2010
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"The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus"
First published in 1999
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"The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell"
First published in 1996
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"Stainless Steel Visions"
First published in 1993
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"The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted"
First published in 1987
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"A Stainless Steel Rat is Born"
First published in 1985
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"The Stainless Steel Rat for President"
First published in 1982
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"The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat"
First published in 1978
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"The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!"
First published in 1978
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"The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World"
First published in 1972
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"The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge"
First published in 1970
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