Wayne Bolivar “Slippery Jim” diGriz, Special Corps agent, get good at con guy, and interstellar offender (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 superstars within the wildest journey since Gulliver’s Moves. In this darkly satiric function, Harry Harrison brings his most famous character out of retirement to get a grand tour from the galaxy. The STAINLESS Rat rides once again: a cocktail in his hand, a smile on his lips, and larceny in his heart, searching for experience, gravitons, and a way to eliminate the pigs.