Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Every stand-in dreamed of the starring role - but what actor would risk his life for the chance?

One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he’s shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war.

Smythe knows nothing of the issues concerning free interplanetary trade and equal rights for aliens and cares even less, but the handsome compensation is impossible to refuse. He soon realizes, however, that he faces a lifetime masquerade if the real politician never shows up.

©1956, 1984 by Robert A. Heinlein. © 2003 by the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing

it has a dated futuristic feel that is so good

This is of course a great book! it is of space but it has a flow and a feel that roots it in the era it was written .

Very good read

My love affair with Robert Heinlein goes back to the 1980's My favorite would be , The Moon is a harsh mistress. I know he had many great works but that story was just fun to read. Re-education myself after years was a double pleasure

still a very good book

This book was very well written. The reading is excellently done and well acted too. enjoy

Many will recognize the movie that was made

A good performance, Bronson Pinchot, much better than I was expecting. Good story, and many will recognize it as the original basis for the movie “Dave”. And debatable about which one was better.

great story, narrator is excellent

great work by Heinlein, but the narrator really brings his all and ties it together