The StainlessSteel Rat joins the Circus.
Author - Harry Harrison.
The Hero or Anti Hero of the series of stainlesssteel rat books is Jim DiGriz.
He was born or rather created in 1961 and has appeared on book shelves ever since.
The richest man in the galaxy, Imperitrix Von Kaiser Czarski, Hires Jim and his wife Angelina to investigate and if possible to catch the criminals behind several bank robberies.
Jim, his wife and their son, James, find a common link to each robbery in that every time a bank has been robbed a Circus has been very near by.
Jim hires a retired magician, 'The Great Grissini' to teach him some tricks and then joins the circus pretending to be a magician!
As is the ilk with the 'rat' stories, there then follows some odd, fast paced and improbable adventures where Jim faces death, is conned, double ...
Advantages: good yarn Disadvantages: Not bad read for a one off read
The StainlessSteel Rat joins the Circus.
Aseries of books following Jim DiGriz who some think a hero whilst other a villian.
Another tale in the saga of The Stainlesssteel rat series. here is Jim DiGriz. is brought in to investigate a series of puzzling bank robberies. He brings his wife and son in on the investigation and soon the family team are deep in weird and wonderful worlds of villains and plots and sub plots.
The bank robberies all have a common theme, there is always a circus around during the thefts.
They infiltrate the circus and soon are in mortal danger, but all is not what it seems and their employer has secrets that may also put their lives in jeopardy.
Very fast paced book that fair flies along and never slackens right up until the surprising ending.
Well written ...
Advantages: Exclusive Disadvantages: A bit expensive
***INTRO***
I met my sister for a free lunch time jazz concert in central London recently, during the concert we ordered a light lunch consisting of tuna and onion sandwich and flavoured crisps, they gave us chips by a company called Tyrell's, they call them chips. We tried the sea salt & crushed black pepper. The 50-g bag had the company name on the front in large letters, with this flavour you could view the chips inside. The company also sells dips for the chips.
***BACKGROUND***
Most of the following information can be found on their website at www.tyrrellspotatochips.co.uk, here is a brief précis:
THE COMPANY
Tyrrells is named after Tyrrells Court, the farm where William Chase (owner) grows potato for chips produced next to the farm. The only small chip producer in the UK.
THE PRODUCT RANGE
They produce over 24 ...
