“I am Jim Degriz, Slippery Jim, a rat of stainless steel. In an instant, I can become someone else, rob any bank in any of the inhabited systems, leave a space wolf without his ship, start a war or, on the contrary, stop it—depending on who offers more. So when the police finally caught me, they had only one option left: make me work for them.”
The fourth book in the series by internal chronology and the first by publication date.