"Harry Harrison - SSR 02 - The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge" - читать интересную книгу автора (Harrison Harry)

reinforcing sessions after that. I would aid up speaking the language and
having one hell of a headache from all the electronic fingering of my
synapses. But there was a period of total unconsciousness while the machine
operated and that was just what I felt like at the moment. I slipped the
helmet down over my ears, settled on the couch and pressed the button.
There was a flicker of no time and Angelina was carefully lifting off the
helmet and handing me a pill at the same instant. I swallowed it and kept my
eyes closed while the pain ebbed away. Soft lips kissed mine.
"They are trying to kill you, but you will not let them. You will laugh
and win and someday you will have Inskipp's job."
I opened one eye a crack and looked at her jubilant expression.
"Come home with my shield or on it? Go to glory or the grave? Are you
worried about me?"
 "All of the time. But that is a wife's job. I certainly cannot stand in
the way of your career--"
"I didn't know I had one until you told me just now."
"--and will do everything I can to help."
"You can't come with me, for a very obvious and protruding reason."
"I know that. But I will be with you in spirit all the time. How are you
going to land on this world?"
"Board my nimble pursuit ship, come in straight and fast behind a radar
screen, zing down into the atmosphere--"
"And get blasted into your component atoms. Here, read this report by the
survivor of the last ship to try this approach."
I read it. It was most depressing. I threw it back with the others.
"I heed the warning. This planet appears to be militarized to the hilt.
I'll bet even the house pets wear uniforms. Bulling in like that is
approaching these people on their own terms, competing in the area where they
are best organized. What they are not organized against is a little bit of
guile, some larceny, a smooth approach covering a devious attack. Insinuate,
penetrate, operate and extirpate."
"All at once I am beginning not to like it," my love said, frowning. "You
will take care of yourself, Jim? I don't think worrying would be good for me
right now."
"If you wish to worry, worry about the fate of this poor planet with
Slippery Jim unleashed against them. Their conquests are at an end, they are
as good as finished."
I kissed her resoundingly and walked out, head high and shoulders back.
Wishing that I was one tenth as sure of myself as I had acted. This was
going to be a very rough one.

Chapter 4

My planning had been detailed, the preparations complex, the operation
gigantic. I had received more than one shrill cry of pain from Inskipp about
the cost, all of which I dutifully ignored. It was my neck in the noose, not
his, and I was hedging all the bets that I could to assure my corporeal
survival. But even the most complicated plan is eventually completed, the last
details sewed up, the final orders issued. And the sheep led to the slaughter.
Baaa. Here I was, naked to the world, sitting in the bar of the