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: Easy to use Disadvantages: Involves guess work to know when the bottle is ready
I bought the bottle warmer when my baby was 6 weeks old. Prior to that I was using a jug and hot water to heat bottles and would take a flask of hot water to bed with us, so we didn't have to boil a kettle during the night.
I bought the bottle warmer on a bit of a whim really, it said it heats bottles in 4 minutes and I imagined it would take the guess work out of bottle temperatures - it doesn't do this.
The device is simple to operate, you put the bottle in, pour in water to the line and switch it on at level 3 and it starts to work. What it doesn't do is tell you when the bottle is ready; there is no timer on the bottle warmer so it's back to the guess work again. It has an orange light that comes on the thing is heating the water. When I first used the product, I thought the bottle was ready when the light went out, this is ...
