As the market for comics began to shrink, he started writing for science-fiction magazines. He then moved on to editing some of the magazines. By the end of the 1940s, he was running a small studio that specialized in selling illustrations to comics and science-fiction magazines. After being discharged, he graduated from Hunter College with a degree in art. Air Corps in 1943 and became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-guided bomb-sights and gun turrets. Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey on Main Stamford, Connecticut. Will this be his final show? Has Slippery Jim finally leapt for his last trapeze? Naaah. and drawing the attention of more dangerous ringmasters and strongmen than he ever expected.
Now, as he infiltrates the world of the galactic big top, he's taking the role to extremes. In a sense, The Stainless Steel Rat has always been a high-wire performer. Robberies which, it turns out, always happen when the circus is nearby.
Then they meet a billionaire who claims to be 40,000 years old-who offers them millions of credits to investigate a string of unsolved interstellar bank robberies. Now, Slippery Jim and his beautiful wife Angelina find themselves becalmed on a painfully boring backwater planet, with nothing to do but practice their skills at computer crime. For novel upon novel, Jim DiGriz has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems. The galaxy's greatest thief and con artist: the Stainless Steel Rat.
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