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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... campaign speeches . A discreet rumor had been spread that my doctor had been afraid that my heart had been strained by the " virus infection " and had advised me to stay in the low gravity of the Moon through- out the campaign . I did ...
... campaign speeches . A discreet rumor had been spread that my doctor had been afraid that my heart had been strained by the " virus infection " and had advised me to stay in the low gravity of the Moon through- out the campaign . I did ...
Page 111
... campaign executive committee . Since the Expansionist Party was a minority party , being merely the largest fraction of a coalition of several parties held together by the leader- ship and personality of John Joseph Bonforte , I had to ...
... campaign executive committee . Since the Expansionist Party was a minority party , being merely the largest fraction of a coalition of several parties held together by the leader- ship and personality of John Joseph Bonforte , I had to ...
Page 114
... campaign ; you just don't do that , ever . But he is not a rat . In his profession you don't spill a client's secrets , even if you fall out with him . " " I hope you are right . " " You'll see . Don't worry about it . Just get on with ...
... campaign ; you just don't do that , ever . But he is not a rat . In his profession you don't spill a client's secrets , even if you fall out with him . " " I hope you are right . " " You'll see . Don't worry about it . Just get on with ...
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