Double StarOne minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line -- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... Earth , and I said so . He shook his head . " Not at all . Leave it to me and we will slide you back in as neatly as we slid you out . Eventually you will walk off that field or some other field with a gate pass which shows that you are ...
... Earth , and I said so . He shook his head . " Not at all . Leave it to me and we will slide you back in as neatly as we slid you out . Eventually you will walk off that field or some other field with a gate pass which shows that you are ...
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... Earth to pick up a substitute for the Chief . Do you begin to scan it , old son ? " I admit that I did not . " Yes , but - see here , Captain , if Mr. Bonforte's political enemies have kidnaped him , why keep it secret ? I should expect ...
... Earth to pick up a substitute for the Chief . Do you begin to scan it , old son ? " I admit that I did not . " Yes , but - see here , Captain , if Mr. Bonforte's political enemies have kidnaped him , why keep it secret ? I should expect ...
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... Earth does , and even on Earth an election " day " is more than thirty hours long , as the globe turns . But now we began to get the im- portant districts of the great land masses of Earth . We had forged far ahead the day before in the ...
... Earth does , and even on Earth an election " day " is more than thirty hours long , as the globe turns . But now we began to get the im- portant districts of the great land masses of Earth . We had forged far ahead the day before in the ...
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