Misplaced Battleship

James Bolivar diGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat, the most charming criminal in the galaxy. When an entire battleship vanishes from a spacedock, lost in the chaos of interstellar traffic, someone has to find it before the thieves learn to fire the weapons. The government makes diGriz an offer he can't refuse: track down the battleship, or go back to prison. What follows is a breakneck caper through a future where bureaucratic incompetence meets cosmic scale. DiGriz must impersonate, bluff, and manipulate his way across planets and stations, racing against a clock that ticks toward potential annihilation. The Stainless Steel Rat novels are satirical space opera at its finest, Harrison pokes fun at authority, military bureaucracy, and the absurdities of a civilization that can build starships but can't keep track of them. This is for readers who want their sci-fi with a wink, their heroes slippery and self-aware, and their entertainment fast and funny.