This book is better than the Stainless Steel Rat books which insist on things like time or dimensional travel -- this one sticks to the more traditional crime plot, which I think are generally better. Then again, its nowhere near the best Stainless Steel Rat book I have read.

It feels a little like the editor was lazy for this book though -- there are typographical errors which make it hard to read. There have been several times when I have had to reread a sentence to work out what was meant. One example is when a character declares himself to be a "Galactic Inspector of Texas". That should have read "Galactic Inspector of Taxes".

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This Rat adventure is a bit better. The richest man in the universe comes to Jim and asks him to find out who is robbing all his financial institutions.

It is not all that simple, though, but luckily Jim has his whole family with him, and has recently received some training from a master magician as part of his new employment.

Sneakiness, doublecross and scamming ensue.

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