Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (Stainless Steel Rat Books) [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Following his frolic in Hell (The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell, 1996), the eponymous Slippery Jim diGriz runs off to join the circus. Jim and his wife, the lovely and talented Angelina, are approached by Imperetrix ``Kaizi'' Von Kaiser-Czarski, the galaxys richest man (and, possibly, the oldestafter 40,000 years his memory's none too reliable). Kaizi's being robbed, systematically yet undetectably, and he's willing to pay four million credits per day (plus expenses) to catch the thief. Our slick duo's single clue: a circus was in town when each robbery occurred. It wasnt the same circus, but always on the bill was Puissanto, the Strongest Man in the Galaxy. To question him, Jim and Angelina must travel to the remote and uninviting planet Fetorr and its equally uninviting city of Fetorrscoria. Another splendid romp for Harrison's picaresque pair. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Slippery Jim DiGriz. The galaxy's greatest thief and con artist: the Stainless Steel Rat. In novel upon novel, Jim Digriz has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swath through dozens of star systems.

Now, Slippery Jim and his beautiful wife, Angelina, find themselves becalmed on a painfully boring backwater planet, with nothing to do but practice their skills at computer crime.

Then they meet a billionaire who claims to be 40,000 years old, and he offers them millions of credits to investigate a string of unsolved interstellar bank robberies. Robberies which, it turns out, always happen when the circus is nearby.

In a sense, the Stainless Steel Rat has always been a high-wire performer. Now, as he infiltrates the world of the galactic big top, he's taking the role to extremes -- and drawing the attention of more dangerous ringmasters and strongmen than he ever expected.

The indomitable Stainless Steel Rat returns, under contract from a 40,000-year-old billionaire to investigate a string of robberies that always occur just when the circus comes to town.