Cats' Out of the Bag

Champion of the Empire Herc Tom longs for more interesting times. His wish is fulfilled with the return of the Lost Basstards, a couple of prison breaks, the kidnapping of a Prince, the reappearance of an assassin, an alien invasion, and fifteen different kinds of treachery. Maybe life wasn't all that boring after all.Cats Out of the Bag is a speculative fiction novelette, and is the sixth of the Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire stories, following Purr Mission, Nipped in the Butt, Cat and Mouse, Baastards' Revenge, and Imperial Purrogative.