Harry Garrison's cycle of Jim di Grizz, nicknamed the Steel Rat, is rightly considered one of the best in the work of the famous science fiction writer. The hero of the cycle, a great fool and fraudster, knows how to get out of the water dry in almost any situation, no matter how hopeless it may seem at first - and in any corner of the universe, wherever fate throws him. In the mad struggle for the presidency, associated with mortal risk, on the planet Paraiso-Aki Or in the depths of hell, where Jim goes to save his beloved wife. And when the richest man in the galaxy offers a fantastic amount of reward for a dangerous cause, then the Creator of the world himself will not persuade him to refuse. But, even getting rich and getting a rare opportunity to retire with his family, Jim Dee Grease does not stay in peace for long. He is not a human being, he is a human being.