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. Now three of the Rat`s greatest exploits are collected in a single volume. In "A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born", 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 "The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted", this time into a planetary army, the Rat must avenge the murder of his mentor-in-crime. And in "The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues", Slippery Jim must retrieve a missing alien artifact, while disguised as a futuristic forfeit his life.