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#1160 of 8,085 books · #251 in Science Fiction

Won the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1956).

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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Publisher
Astounding Science-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780451081889
Topics
Identity and impersonationPolitics and diplomacyInterplanetary conflict

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