Double StarThe story revolves around Lawrence Smith, also known as "Lorenzo the Great", a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war. |
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... Broadbent to kill him , I did think that I was about to see Dubois used as a dust rag . I had no thought of interfering . Every man is entitled to elect the time and manner of his own destruction . I could see tension grow . Then ...
... Broadbent to kill him , I did think that I was about to see Dubois used as a dust rag . I had no thought of interfering . Every man is entitled to elect the time and manner of his own destruction . I could see tension grow . Then ...
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... Broadbent : " doesn't matter if the game is crooked when it's the only game in town . Jock , there is nobody else we can use . " Dubois : " All right , then get Doc Scortia over here , hyp- notize him , and shoot him the happy juice ...
... Broadbent : " doesn't matter if the game is crooked when it's the only game in town . Jock , there is nobody else we can use . " Dubois : " All right , then get Doc Scortia over here , hyp- notize him , and shoot him the happy juice ...
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... Broadbent . For reasons of his own - not my reasons ! -he had almost got me killed , then had crowded me into covering up a crime , made me a fugitive from justice . But we had evaded the police , temporarily at least , and now , simply ...
... Broadbent . For reasons of his own - not my reasons ! -he had almost got me killed , then had crowded me into covering up a crime , made me a fugitive from justice . But we had evaded the police , temporarily at least , and now , simply ...
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