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DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships anymore, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable.
DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself and the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who his planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds. DiGriz' dilemma is whether he will turn Angelina over to the Special Corps, or join with her, since he has fallen in love with her.
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About Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (1925-2012) was drafted
into the Army after finishing school and served in World War II, where he
learned both to shoot guns and repair analogue computers. Leaving the Army at
the end of the war, Harrison teamed up with Wally Wood and produced
professional comic book art. When the comic book boom came to an end, Harrison
moved from drawing to writing. In 1957 his story, “The Stainless Steel Rat” was
published in Astounding, and introduced a character which would
stay with him (and readers) for the next forty-odd years. In 1975 Harrison had
his first brush with Hollywood when his novel, Make Room! Make Room! was used for the basis of Soylent Green.
His novels have also been successfully adapted for other media: radio plays and
readings, a board game, at least one computer game, and, taking us full-circle,
comic books, most notably 2000AD’s adaptations of the Stainless
Steel Rat books.
In
a career spanning sixty years, Harrison produced more than a
hundred short stories, edited over thirty anthologies, and published more than sixty
novels.
About Phil Gigante
Phil Gigante has narrated more than two hundred audiobooks, earning ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and three of the prestigious Audie Awards for best narration. An actor, director, and producer with over twenty years of experience in theater, film, television, and radio, he is currently the artistic director of Gigantic Productions and Little Giant Children’s Theatre.