Double Star
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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 kidnapp….Read More
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