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A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

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Young Jim diGriz has but one ambition in life - to become a master criminal, perhaps the greatest that little Bit O'Heaven has ever seen. So that he can learn the ropes, he has to mix with the right people - or rather the wrong people. And for this kind of on-the-job training the best place to meet the worst villians is in prison. But even for a customer as slippery as Jim, getting behind bars isn't easy.

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So Jim does a bank job, very badly, with the avowed intention of getting himself nicked...

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 219 pages

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