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Double Star

Robert A. Heinlein

1957128 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1957
first published
  • 1957Penguin Publishing Group · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780451066060
  • 1960Grafton Books · ENGISBN 9780586025024
  • 1968Penguin Publishing Group · 159 pages · ENGISBN 9780451014443
  • 1978Gregg Press · 186 pages · ENGISBN 9780839824466
  • 1986Del Ray · 243 pages · ENGISBN 9780345330130
  • 2000Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786117451
  • 2015Phoenix Pick · 170 pagesISBN 9781612422855
  • 2015Phoenix Pick · 172 pagesISBN 9781612422862

One 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!

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