<div><b>One of SF's most beloved rogues: the Stainless Steel Rat!</b><br><br>Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy's greatest interstellar thief and con artist. For novel upon novel, the Rat has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems-and stealing the hearts of thousands of readers.<br><br>Now three of the Rat's greatest exploits are collected in a single volume. In <i>A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born</i>, we see the origin and early days of Jim DiGriz's brilliant criminal career, as our underworld hero is forced to work for the Good Guys. Conscripted again in<i> The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted</i>, this time into a planetary army, the Rat must avenge the murder of his mentor-in-crime. And in <i>The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues</i>, Slippery Jim must retrieve a missing alien artifact, while disguised as a futuristic rock-and-roller...or forfeit his life.<br></div>