Things aren’t heading good for Slippery Jim diGriz. First there was the robbery from the Mint on Paskonjak that went terribly wrong, and then that little matter of a death charges, and an extremely unpleasant execution from then on. And lastly, there’s the offer Slippery Jim slashes with the specialists, which, on reflection, doesn’t look superior to slow death. In trade for his existence, Slippery Jim must get a missing alien artifact from the earth Liokukae – a dumping surface for the Galactic League’s misfits, murderers, maniacs, as well as the incurably obnoxious. Under cover as the leader of the rock band The STAINLESS Rats, Slippery Jim violates every regulation of the property – like the musical types. He has thirty days to recreate the artifact…or the slow-acting poison the Group has fed him will activate, and Slippery Jim diGriz will be background.