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The Stainless Steel Rat for President

Stainless Steel Rat, Book 5

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The Stainless Steel Rat for President

By: Harry Harrison
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
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This time the Special Corps has given the Rat a daring assignment: liberate a backward tourist planet from the clutches of an aging dictator. With his lovely but lethal wife, Angelina, and his two stalwart sons, James and Bolivar, diGriz pits ballots against bullets in the fight for freedom. He's vowed to restore truth, justice, and democracy to the world of Paraiso-Aqui, even if he has to lie, cheat, and steal to do it!

Man of steal: Listen to more in the Stainless Steel Rat series.©1982 Harry Harrison (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Science Fiction

Critic reviews

"The Rat can hold his head high amongst the most elevated superhero company - Bulldog Drummond, James Bond, and Flash Gordon included." ( Times Literary Supplement)
"Pure entertainment... Abounding in quick action and quicker jokes... The Stainless Steel Rat series shows Harrison's talents at best advantage." ( S.F. Review)
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Among the best available on this service, funny, warm, and one hundred percent Harry Harrison. Great narrator too, he obviously really enjoys these books. Get the lot, banish boredom and have a giggle.

Brilliant stories told brilliantly.

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Never fails to deliver. A rollicking good story. Twists and turns aplenty.
More moral law breaking and illicit fun and games.

Never fails to deliver. A rollicking good story.

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This is my favourite Rat book, and Gigante's reading is as usual just right - expressing the Rat just as it should be done. Only written 4 years after 'Wants you', but by then in the eighties, it has a much more 'modern' tone and style, so it holds up better than some of the older books.

The plot romps along with little to hold it back, and Gigante portrays the entire diGriz family as enthusiastic felons who are essentially having a family holiday. You would need to have read the previous books in order for this to make sense, but that's generally true of any book in a series.

My favourite Rat book, and with good reason

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As I listened, I felt in my minds eye, Every Bit of the THRILL POWER from when I first read the chronicles of The Stainless Rats 44 years ago in the comic 2000AD...

ALL HAIL THARG the MIGHTY...

LONG LIVE 2000AD.

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I have been a fan of the stainless steel rat for years, and it is so nice to have the whole collection.

I would seriously recommend this book

a brilliant reading of a brilliant book

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