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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... trying to arrange a deal with Trowbridge . " " I should think so ! " " But - see here , Lorenzo , I'm going to lay it on the line . While you were busy whooping your cookies after Brenn- schluss I called the Go For Broke and told them ...
... trying to arrange a deal with Trowbridge . " " I should think so ! " " But - see here , Lorenzo , I'm going to lay it on the line . While you were busy whooping your cookies after Brenn- schluss I called the Go For Broke and told them ...
Page 68
... trying to make him talk because he didn't have any secrets that were of any possible political importance . He always operated out in the open and everybody knows it . They must have been using it simply to keep him under control , keep ...
... trying to make him talk because he didn't have any secrets that were of any possible political importance . He always operated out in the open and everybody knows it . They must have been using it simply to keep him under control , keep ...
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... tried , sir . " " Tried ' ! You succeeded . It is an odd thing to see one's own self . " I realized with sudden ... trying to do it word for word , but in- terpreting it , letting it roll and thunder as he would have done and ending ...
... tried , sir . " " Tried ' ! You succeeded . It is an odd thing to see one's own self . " I realized with sudden ... trying to do it word for word , but in- terpreting it , letting it roll and thunder as he would have done and ending ...
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