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Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge - Harry Harrison (book 2 of the SSR series). Other than the typical hangups of sci-fi from the era, not a particularly aggregous example though, it's been an ok 'brain-off' read. I enjoyed the series going through it my first couple times as a teen, less so now. Mostly recommend as a nostalgia trip, or a study of sci-fi as a whole. Otherwise, go read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or something.
Honestly, the most interesting thing has been the tech predictions, poor Harrison didn't stand a chance. Mass surveillance would be too labour intensive to be feasible?!
Looked it up, was disappointed to see that it wasn't an actual stainless steel rat.
It doesn't get much better.
As an aside thank you for posting these. It's been fascinating to see what people are reading, maybe add the books to my own wishlist.