Stainless Steel Rat (Score 1)

I would suggest IMHO trying something like Harry Harrison's, The Stainless Steel Rat. Got me hooked with his sense of humor. When I read the pre-text... "I can steal anything, anytime, anywhere, regardless if the guards are Human, Electronic, or Other. I was so good that by the time the space cops finally caught up with me, there was only one thing they could do. They made me a cop!" No F-bombs or needless: Brown chicken brown cow (say it out loud with that 70's funk)! Kept me interested since I was a wee lad!