Book description
Young Jim diGriz has but one ambition in life - to become a master
criminal, perhaps the greatest that his backwater homeworld, Bit
O'Heaven, has ever seen. So that he can learn the ropes, he has to mix
with the right people - or rather the wrong people. And for this kind of
on-the-job training the best place to meet the worst villains is in
prison. But even for a customer as slippery as Jim, getting behind bars
isn't easy. So Jim does a bank job, very badly, with the avowed
intention of getting himself nicked . . .
Harry Harrison (1925 - 2012)
Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925.
He is the author of a number of much-loved series including the
Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero sequences and the
Deathworld Trilogy. He is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto,
the most popular of the constructed international languages, which
appears in many of his novels. He has been publishing novels for over
half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of
overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into the cult
film Soylent Green. He died in 2012.
