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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... hands were long , narrow , and aristocratic like mine - and hands are harder than faces . That limp , supposedly the ... hand does he use to strike a cigarette and with what gesture ? I got the answer to that one and planted it deep in ...
... hands were long , narrow , and aristocratic like mine - and hands are harder than faces . That limp , supposedly the ... hand does he use to strike a cigarette and with what gesture ? I got the answer to that one and planted it deep in ...
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... hand . The ship was at the moment under low boost as it adjusted to a much tighter orbit than the Go For Broke had been riding in . Clifton threw me a quick glance , then played up . He took his cigar out of his mouth , shook hands ...
... hand . The ship was at the moment under low boost as it adjusted to a much tighter orbit than the Go For Broke had been riding in . Clifton threw me a quick glance , then played up . He took his cigar out of his mouth , shook hands ...
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... hand - but it is too much to expect a man to understand both politics and period costuming . It is an ugly costume , but it did make a fine background for the Order of Wilhelmina stretched in colorful diagonal across my chest . I looked ...
... hand - but it is too much to expect a man to understand both politics and period costuming . It is an ugly costume , but it did make a fine background for the Order of Wilhelmina stretched in colorful diagonal across my chest . I looked ...
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