# Double Star

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- Book: [Double Star](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-heinlein/double-star) ([Double Star.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-heinlein/double-star.md))
- Authors: [Robert Heinlein](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-heinlein)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7512-203-1
- Published: 2013-09-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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!