Harry Harrison 
The Stainless Steel Rat and The Misplaced Battleship [EPUB ebook] 
With linked Table of Contents

It’s more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim di Griz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing battleship and make sure it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. A fast paced comical science fiction romp!