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Having once saved the world, James Bolivar DiGriz—known as the Stainless Steel Rat—faces a new crisis when his wife is taken by the tax men. He frees his teenage twin sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary to keep family together. As the League, a humans-only galaxy, is invaded by grotesque aliens, DiGriz, disguised in a hideous alien form, infiltrates the enemy stronghold. Threatened by alien desires and a plot to wipe out humanity, he battles to protect every human in the universe.
First publish date: 1978
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Harry Harrison
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