title: Callahan's Key (Bantam Spectra Book)
author:  Spider Robinson 
description: What's Jake Stonebender's standard fee for saving the universe? That's  easy: "A bar, and enough money and clout to run it." It's time for Jake to save  the day yet again, with a lot of help from the rest of his pun-happy, cosmically  strange crew. And no more kiddie stakes like in the <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812539370/${0}">previous Callahan books</a>, when mere  humanity was on the line. Nope, Jake needs to save the totality of the universe.  From, of all things, the quest for knowledge. What does that mean? Well, it's  got something to do with a classified satellite called the Deathstar, a  hurricane named Erin, a superenergetic cosmic ray in the wrong place at the  wrong time, the Soviet space station Mir, and a shamelessly enormous volume of  Irish coffee. But as any Callahan fan will duly attest, all of this is really  beside the point.
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  CALLAHAN'S KEY
  
  A Bantam Spectra Book
  
  PUBLISHING HISTORY
  
  Bantam Spectra hardcover edition published J