It was totally impossible for Cliaand to wage intersteller war... but the crazy little planet was winning whatever the odds. And there wasn't much the peaceful galaxy could do... except send slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Rat - to wage his own kind of guerrilla campaign against the men of Cliaand and their leader, the indomitable Kraj. But then the Rat was aided by a band of liberated Amazons and his own beloved Angelina... and they had to swing the odds in his favour.

The second adventure of slippery Jim diGriz the Robin Hood of the far future, robbing the rich to give to the even richer... himself.