[Stainless Steel Rat (Chronological Order) 08] • For President

**Rat in Paradise!**

You can't keep a good rat down, not one as slippery as Jim diGriz alias the Stainless Steel Rat. And you can't keep this nose out of trouble either.

Jim and the lethal Angelina owe themselves a honeymoon and Paraiso-Aqui looks like the place. Settled long ago by voyagers from the southern continent of Earth (or Dirt as it was also known) Paraiso is warm and easy. But all is not well in paradise. The serpentine tyrant General Julio Zapilote is about to sail back into office in another rigged election, and the chance to scupper him is just too good for Jim to miss. Corruption, bribery, graft and chicanery - for the Rat it's just like coming home.

**Harry Harrison, *the Monty Python of the spaceways*** - *Daily Telegraph*

**After this hectic caper the Rat can hold his head high amongst the most elevated superhero company - Bulldog Drummond, James Bond and Flash Gordon included** - *Times Literary Supplement*

Cover Illustration: Jim Burns