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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Page 83
... Imperial Matches nine years earlier , and had published three volumes of verse under the nom de plume of " Acey Wheel- wright . " I resolved never again to take a man at merely his face value . There was a notation in Bonforte's sloppy ...
... Imperial Matches nine years earlier , and had published three volumes of verse under the nom de plume of " Acey Wheel- wright . " I resolved never again to take a man at merely his face value . There was a notation in Bonforte's sloppy ...
Page 91
... Imperial space forces . His bow to me must have been calculated on a slide rule ; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet , that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian - then subtract five ...
... Imperial space forces . His bow to me must have been calculated on a slide rule ; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet , that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian - then subtract five ...
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... Imperial machinery dis- mayed me . Once when we had to attend a meeting outside the offices , Penny had led me on what she called a short cut through the Archives - miles on miles of endless files , each one chockablock with microfilm ...
... Imperial machinery dis- mayed me . Once when we had to attend a meeting outside the offices , Penny had led me on what she called a short cut through the Archives - miles on miles of endless files , each one chockablock with microfilm ...
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