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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... walk to the door like a ground hog and come back the way you walk . Watch . " I did so , making the trip back in a slightly exaggerated version of his walk to allow for his untrained eye - feet sliding softly along the floor as if it ...
... walk to the door like a ground hog and come back the way you walk . Watch . " I did so , making the trip back in a slightly exaggerated version of his walk to allow for his untrained eye - feet sliding softly along the floor as if it ...
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... walk . That's the most distinctive thing about you . If your walk is wrong , it cannot possibly be you - so it must be some other big - boned , broad - shouldered man who looks a bit like you . " " Okay , show me how to walk . " " No ...
... walk . That's the most distinctive thing about you . If your walk is wrong , it cannot possibly be you - so it must be some other big - boned , broad - shouldered man who looks a bit like you . " " Okay , show me how to walk . " " No ...
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... walk . ” Dak stopped talking ; for a moment there was no sound but the keening of the thin Martian air past the roof . A human being can walk possibly two hundred yards on Mars without an oxygen mask , if he is in good condition . I be ...
... walk . ” Dak stopped talking ; for a moment there was no sound but the keening of the thin Martian air past the roof . A human being can walk possibly two hundred yards on Mars without an oxygen mask , if he is in good condition . I be ...
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