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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... actor who can substitute for him ; luckily , the actor has had a sleazy enough past that he's easy to blackmail . The politician is eventually rescued , but much the worse for wear , and is unable to go through with the upcoming ...
... actor who can substitute for him ; luckily , the actor has had a sleazy enough past that he's easy to blackmail . The politician is eventually rescued , but much the worse for wear , and is unable to go through with the upcoming ...
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... actor alive . It was done as discreetly as possible but somebody might have guessed - and talked . The specifications amounted to identification both of the princi- pal and the actor who could double for him , since the job had to be ...
... actor alive . It was done as discreetly as possible but somebody might have guessed - and talked . The specifications amounted to identification both of the princi- pal and the actor who could double for him , since the job had to be ...
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... actor is competent . But I admit that it does help and their silly game with the computer machine had resulted ( quite by accident ! ) in selecting a true artist , as well as one who was in measurements and bony structure the twin of ...
... actor is competent . But I admit that it does help and their silly game with the computer machine had resulted ( quite by accident ! ) in selecting a true artist , as well as one who was in measurements and bony structure the twin of ...
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