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Author: Robert A Heinlein
Publisher: Rockville, Maryland : Phoenix Pick, an imprint of Arc Manor, [2015] ©1956
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Lawrence Smith--also known as 'Lorenzo the Great'--[is] a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war"--Page 4  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert A Heinlein
ISBN: 9781612422893 1612422896
OCLC Number: 1089526842
Notes: Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1956.
Description: 197 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Robert A. Heinlein.

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"Lawrence Smith--also known as 'Lorenzo the Great'--[is] a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war"--Page 4 of cover.

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