Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat by Harrison, Harry. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780441004225.

Contains the 1st 3 Stainless Steel Rat books: The Stainless Steel Rat (1961): DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes & recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships any more, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself & the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who is planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. DiGriz dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since hes fallen in love with her. The Stainless Steel Rats Revenge (1970): DiGriz & Angelina are happily married, expecting the birth of sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war. Against the odds, its Grey Men are invading & taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of the planets leader, Kraj. He is aided by the Amazons, a force of liberated freedom fighters, & eventually by his wife who arrives to help him win the war & keep him out of the arms of the Amazons. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972): The villainous He has travelled back in time to humankinds distant past on the legendary planet Earth (Dirt) of 84, where hes altering events so that people who opposed him in the Rats present cease to exist, Angelina amongst them. Using the Helix, a time-travel device invented by the Special Corps Prof. Coypu, diGriz travels to 84 America, then to Napoleonic France where tanks & aircraft are helping bring about Napoleons victory.