Description: Vaughan Roberts and his two companions had been trapped on a crime- ridden, chaotic planet until they bamboozled the population with a colossal, audacious hoax-which brought them to the attention of the Interstellar Patrol, who were looking for a few good con men, capable of ingenious improvisation and adept at playing dirty tricks on the bad boys. The new recruits acquitted themselves admirably, so they naturally were given more tough nuts to crack, including: flummoxing an alien empire which has taken a number of human prisoners as reconnaissance for an invasion, stopping not-so-good Samaritans from addicting an entire planet's population to a bogus "miracle" drug, rescuing some Patrol personnel taken hostage by terrorist fanatics while convincing any other troublemakers that threatening the patrol is an unpleasant route to suicide, and making sure that the rightful heir to a planet's throne escapes from captivity and overthrows the usurper. (One complication: Roberts may be falling for the heir's beautiful sister.) And much more....

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