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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... Suppose they were not miracu- lous ? Suppose they had all been successful - but dear old Uncle Joe Bonforte had always been somewhere else at the time ? You could use up a lot of actors that way . 3 I had never meddled in politics . My ...
... Suppose they were not miracu- lous ? Suppose they had all been successful - but dear old Uncle Joe Bonforte had always been somewhere else at the time ? You could use up a lot of actors that way . 3 I had never meddled in politics . My ...
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... suppose so . Yes . " " Of course . I would guess that every nest has stereo re- ceivers ; I certainly noticed plenty of them in Kkkah nest . They follow the Empire news as carefully as we do . Don't they ? " " Yes . At least the elders ...
... suppose so . Yes . " " Of course . I would guess that every nest has stereo re- ceivers ; I certainly noticed plenty of them in Kkkah nest . They follow the Empire news as carefully as we do . Don't they ? " " Yes . At least the elders ...
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... suppose you will want to leave it here - it will be safe . " I said , " I'm carrying it . " " Sir ? " His eyebrows shot up and he waited for me to cor- rect my obvious mistake . I reached into Bonforte's favorite clichés and picked one ...
... suppose you will want to leave it here - it will be safe . " I said , " I'm carrying it . " " Sir ? " His eyebrows shot up and he waited for me to cor- rect my obvious mistake . I reached into Bonforte's favorite clichés and picked one ...
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