The Stainless Steel Rat

James Bolivar diGriz has just pulled off what he's sure is the perfect bank robbery when the Special Corps, an interstellar police agency staffed almost entirely by reformed criminals, catches him anyway. Rather than face prison, the master forger and confidence man later known as the Stainless Steel Rat is recruited into their ranks, and immediately set on the trail of an even more dangerous criminal: the beautiful, ruthless Angelina, who is quietly building an illegal warship on a peaceful planet. The book that launched Harry Harrison's long-running comic science-fiction series.