# The Stainless Steel Rat — Character guide

> Key figures in The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison.

- [Slippery Jim diGriz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/slippery_jim_digriz.md): Jim diGriz robs, forges, and improvises his way across the galaxy with a grin, treating each arrest as a scheduling inconvenience and each escape as a timed engineering problem. His real talent is not violence but nerve 
- [Angelina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/angelina.md): Angelina moves through the underworld with an assassin's calm and a planner's patience, and she is always several moves ahead of everyone around her. The photograph she carries hints at a past she has deliberately buried
- [Harold Peters Inskipp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/harold_peters_inskiipp.md): Inskipp runs the Special Corps from behind a desk and a permanently open emergency screen, dealing with agents who wake him at all hours and crises that never quite fit the budget. He is gruff, overworked, and entirely u
- [Pepe Nero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/pepe_nero.md): Pepe is the kind of crook who talks too much, feels too much, and falls in love with exactly the wrong person. He is genuinely fond of Angelina and genuinely out of his depth, which makes him both a useful accomplice and
- [President Ferraro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/president_ferraro.md): President of a planet, involved in political intrigue.
- [Dr. Vulff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/dr_vulff.md): Dr. Vulff is the kind of genius who complains about the lack of good liquor while quietly building the technology that makes someone else's scheme possible. He is not evil so much as entirely self-interested, and he keep
- [Count Cassitor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/count_cassitor.md): Count Cassitor moves through the story with the confidence of someone who has always been the most powerful person in the room, and he does not appreciate being outmaneuvered by a former thief. He is a man of appearances
- [Captain Steng](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/captain_steng.md): A spaceship captain who aids or opposes Jim.
- [Kurt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/kurt.md): A minor character encountered during Jim's travels.
- [Rocca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/rocca.md): A criminal associate of Jim's.
- [King Villelm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/king_villelm.md): A monarch whose actions affect the plot.
- [Grav Bent Diebstall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/grav_bent_diebstall.md): A named character with a minor role.
- [Zina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/zina.md): A character with a small but notable part.
- [Freibur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_stainless_steel_rat_se/characters/freibur.md): A minor character or location reference.

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