The Stainless Steel Rat Returns

Name: The Stainless Steel Rat Returns
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Author: Harry Harrison
ISBN: 9781441881830

Author: Harry Harrison

Series: Stainless Steel Rat Series #12

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/03/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” diGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, and interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him, and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver’s Travels.In this darkly satiric work, Harry Harrison brings his most famous character out of retirement for a grand tour of the galaxy. The Stainless Steel Rat rides again: a cocktail in his hand, a smile on his lips, and larceny in his heart, in search of adventure, gravitons, and a way to get rid of the pigs.

About Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Efka

Kiek teko girdėti atsiliepimų ir komentarų, tai "Plieninė žiurkė", iš esmės, yra toks dalykas, kuris arba tau visiškai limpa, arba visiškai meh. Man - limpa, kaip turi būti, tad 5 žvaigždės - nieko keisto. Aišku, kritikuoti tiek žiurkę, tiek patį Harrisoną, tikrai būtų galima. Bet, visų pirma, reiki......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

The last Stainless Steel Rat adventure, appropriately written from story retirement and given new life in mismanaged money and a spacecraft full of porcuswine. Suffice to say, while this wasn't an actually bad novel and it didn't really seem to be cashing out on its previous success, it didn't reall......more

Goodreads review by Harry

I see a lot of reviewers unable to grasp the concept that people in general and writers in particular are not at the same level of capacity at the age of 85 as they were at the age of 35. Pointing out that works produced by people in their 80’s and their 90’s should be judged by different standards w......more