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Название книги: The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge
Автор(ы): Harry Harrison
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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Chapter 1
I stood in line, as patient as the other taxpayers, my filled out forms and my cash gripped body in my hand. Cash, money, the old fashioned green folding stuff. A local custom that I intended to make expensive to the local customers. I was scratching under the artificial beard, which itched abominably, when the man before me stepped out of the way and I was at the window. My finger stuck in the glue and I had a job freeing it without pulling the beard off as well.“Come, come, pass it over,” the aging, hatchet-faced, bitter and shrewish female official said, hand extended impatiently.“On the contrary,” I said, letting the papers and banknotes fall away to disclose the immense .75 recoilless pistol that I held. “ You pass it over. All of that tax money you have extracted from the sheep like suckers who populate this backward planet.”I smiled to show that I meant it and she choked off a scream and began scrabbling in the cash drawer. It was a broad smile th
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