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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... role for which I was being considered . " That arm - waver ! That word - mouther ! " I stopped , realizing that it was more dignified to ignore such colleagues - if the word fits . But that popinjay was so conceited that - well , if the ...
... role for which I was being considered . " That arm - waver ! That word - mouther ! " I stopped , realizing that it was more dignified to ignore such colleagues - if the word fits . But that popinjay was so conceited that - well , if the ...
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... role ! I had once played the lead in L'Aiglon and I had played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name . But to play such a role in life - well , it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine ...
... role ! I had once played the lead in L'Aiglon and I had played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name . But to play such a role in life - well , it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine ...
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... role of his career : THE ROLE - Doubling for a missing leader who is the most loved and most threatened Earthman on the planet . THE STAKES - Peace with the Martians and colonial union with the democratic inter - world empire ... if he ...
... role of his career : THE ROLE - Doubling for a missing leader who is the most loved and most threatened Earthman on the planet . THE STAKES - Peace with the Martians and colonial union with the democratic inter - world empire ... if he ...
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