Slippery Jim diGriz, the future's master criminal tumed super-spy, is recruiting for an all-out interstellar war! Loathsome, mind sucking creatures from an unknown star are closing in on Earth. Once again it's up to the Stainless Steel Rat to save humanity. In a daring caper packed with action and laughs, the Rat goes undercover to stop the invasion-disguised as a hideous, bug-eyed extraterrestrial!

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

"A fast-moving, light-fingered entertainment from one of the masters of tongue-in-cheek parody."—New York Newsday