The main bad guy is He-Who-Will-Take-Over the Universeor simply “He” (no relation Haggard’s She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed). Before you go too far down the rabbit hole, let me warn you that if you try to form a straight line of the brain-pretzeling logic behind the various time jumps in the story, you risk nervous exhaustion and possibly even an aneurysm. The Special Core is the elite police force and spy agency of the 350th Century, made up mostly of former criminals like Jim.īefore the last of the Special Core goes poofing out of existence, they arrange to toss Jim back to 1975 where he can undue the damage down to the time stream. In his latest escapade, Jim is called upon to pretty much save the universe from a group of time traveling criminal butt stains who’ve traveled into Earth’s distant past (the 1970’s) to wipe out the Special Core as a prelude to taking over the future (circa. Go on, take your time and check it out.the rest of us can pass the time looking at a couple of random funny pics until you get back.
This series is your basic literary pick me up.įor those unfamiliar with the world of the Stainless Steel Rat series, allow me to brazenly pimp out my previous review of book one: Steve’s blatant vote whoring link to his earlier review. Jim is one of those characters you just want to hang out with and he's always good for a few laughs and an elevated level of happy. Within the pantheon of endearing, morally-deficient scamps and scoundrels, James “Slippery Jim” Bolivar DiGriz (aka the Stainless Steel Rat) is up there with Bugs Bunny…except not quite so nasty.
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